Updated: Osinbajo absent as Buhari meets Adamu, APC Governors

President Muhammadu Buhari met with members of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) behind closed doors on Tuesday.

The meeting took place at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, was also part of the meeting, which lasted for about an hour.

The outcome of the meeting, which was attended by the governors elected on the platform of the APC, was unknown to newsmen at the time of filing this report.

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, who is expected to be screened by the party’s presidential screening committee on Tuesday, was absent from the meeting.

Gov. Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State, who is also the Chairman of the forum, however, declined to comment on the outcome of the meeting.

But NAN reported that the meeting deliberated on critical issues relating to the forthcoming National Convention of the party.

According to sources, the president used the opportunity of the meeting to discuss the forthcoming presidential primaries of the party, and the need to have a united position with all stakeholders of the party, including the governors.

The APC National Convention has been scheduled to hold between June 6 and June 8, 2022.