Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress’ (APC) presidential candidate, has met with several of the party’s governors as well as certain PCC members.
Senator Kashim Shettima, his running companion, also attended the meeting, which began late on Monday and lasted early on Tuesday.
It was learned that the meeting was a component of the campaign’s engagements for strategy review even if specifics of the meeting were not made public.
Apart from the crises in some state chapters of the party, it was gathered that some other complaints aired at the conference were some party bigwigs’ lack of involvement in the party’s presidential campaigns.
“The meeting was essentially a review of what we have been doing and of course, the way forward.
“We discussed the remaining activities in the campaign timetable, state of he states and the absence of some party bigwigs from the campaign train.
“It was resolved that we should all join hands together and work towards delivering Asiwaju as Nigeria’s next president”, said a source privy to the meeting.
Another source at the meeting said; “Our Presidential candidate used the meeting to appreciate all the governors, especially in states where the campaign had already taken place and pleaded for their continued support as the electioneering hots up ahead of the general election.
“The meeting also discussed the next phase of the campaign activities, bearing in mind that February 25 presidential election date is some weeks ahead.
“Areas and activities the campaign council will have to re-jig were also identified and concluded upon.”
Some of those in attendance were the presidential candidate, his running mate, the Chairman of PGF and Governors of Kebbi State, Abubakar Bagudu, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar(Jigawa), Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna), Inuwa Yahaya (Gombe), Yahaya Bello (Kogi), Bello Mohammed Matawalle (Zamfara), David Umahi (Ebonyi) and AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq (Kwara).
The Presidential Campaign Council also had its Deputy Director-General (Operations), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, Deputy Director-General (Admin) Hadiza Bala Usman and the Secretary, James Abiodun Faleke in attendance.
