The race for the presidency in 2023 seems getting interesting in the ruling All Progressives Congress as President Muhammadu Buhari held a meeting with party stalwart and leading aspirant, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in Abuja on Tuesday.
The relationship between both has been continually dramatic practically since Buhari assumed office in 2015.
Tinubu played a major role in Buhari’s ascension, but many believe that some cabal has prevented their relationship to be predictably fluid.
Even Buhari’s wife, Aisha, noted this in one of her complaints years back.
Currently, the relationship is under focus as Buhari is believed to be supporting his Vice, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, for the candidacy.
Osinbajo, regarded as a former associate/mentee of Tinubu, whom he served as a commissioner when he was Lagos State Governor, was absent at the meeting.
It is, however not clear whether or not the President attempted to persuade Tinubu to back down for Osinbajo.
Meanwhile, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that one of the President’s Personal Photographers, Mr Sunday Aghaeze, confirmed this in pictorial reports on Tuesday night in Abuja.
It added that the agenda of the meeting between the president and the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) could not be ascertained as at the time of filing this report.
Tinubu had on Friday picked the ruling APC presidential nomination and expression of interest forms at the its national secretariat in Abuja.
James Faleke, a member of the House of Representatives, representing Ikeja Federal Constituency, picked the forms for APC national leader, who had since informed the president of his presidential ambition in 2023.
Folake was accompanied by former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal and hundreds of members of the Tinubu Support Groups (TSG) to the party’s secretariat.
NAN reports that Tinubu had recently returned from Saudi Arabia, where he performed the lesser hajj alongside some of his political associates and family members.
