The President, Muhammadu Buhari had separate meetings with
his predecessor Goodluck Jonathan and a former vice president, Namadi Sambo, on
Tuesday.
Personal Assistant to the President, on Digital and New
Media, Bashir Ahmad, made the meetings known on his Twitter page.
According to updates from Ahmad, the president met with
Jonathan and Sambo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
While Buhari met Sambo around 02.44 pm, Jonathan and the president met about 05.44 pm.
President @MBuhari receives former Vice President Arch. Namadi Sambo this afternoon, at the State House, Abuja. pic.twitter.com/PVnZYhD1cl
— Bashir Ahmad (@BashirAhmaad) December 22, 2020
Earlier, the decision by Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni,
to lead a delegation of fellow governors and leading members of the All
Progressives Congress from across Nigeria, to felicitate with former President
Goodluck Jonathan on his 63rd birthday had elicited reactions from across the
country’s political space.
It was an unprecedented trip by leading lights of the former
opposition, now ruling party, who ironically truncated Jonathan’s quest to return
to Aso Rock in 2015.
Among the governors on Buni’s APC entourage were: David
Umahi (Ebonyi State), Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi State) and Abubakar Badaru (Jigawa
State. Former President of the Senate, Ken Nnamani, was also part of the
delegation.
Buni’s media adviser, Mamman Mohammed, while responding to
inquiries about the visit, said, “His Excellency, the Governor of Yobe State,
Mai Mala Buni, and some of his colleagues in the APC were at the residence of
former President Goodluck Jonathan to congratulate him on his 63rd birthday,
nothing more.”
Speaking in a similar vein, spokesman for former President
Jonathan, Ikechukwu Eze, explained that the APC leaders visited his principal
to felicitate with him on his 63rd birthday.
However, the opposition PDP was not swayed. It argued that
the visit was designed to “apologise” to the former President for the campaign
of calumny waged against him in the run-up to the 2015 general elections.
The party stressed that the visit in itself was proof that the APC has admitted that the nation fared better when it was run by Jonathan, a PDP President.
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