As scheming for the Senate presidency and other principal offices of the National Assembly intensify, leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), including federal lawmakers and top government functionaries, thronged the Abuja residence of president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Although the APC bigwigs insisted that it was a welcome visit to Tinubu who returned to the country after a month’s vacation in Paris, France, LEADERSHIP gathered that discussions at the parley also bordered on the mode of zoning of principal offices of the 10th National Assembly.
National chairman of the governing party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, led party leaders on a courtesy visit to the president-elect.
Adamu, who had also traveled out of the country for close to three weeks resumed work yesterday in his office where he spent over four hours before leaving the party’s national secretariat to Tinubu’s residence in Asokoro.
Others at the parley with Tinubu include the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila; Ekiti State governor, Biodun Oyebanji, Senator-elect, Godswill Akpabio, and Senator Jibrin Barau.
Others are Senator Olamilekan Adeola, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, Senator Emma Bwacha, Senator Tokunbo Abiru and Secretary of the dissolved APC Presidential Campaign, Hon. James Faleke.
Although details of the meeting with Tinubu by the party leaders were still sketchy at the time of filing this report as all of them refused to address journalists, a source close to the president-elect said that all the visitors came on their own to welcome Tinubu on his arrival from France.
“All of the visitors that have been coming, especially those who were not around yesterday when Asiwaju returned to the country came to welcome him and wish him well ahead of the May 29 inauguration.
“The party’s national chairman was represented yesterday by his deputy national chairman (North), Senator Abubakar Kyari and today he has come personally. All the visitors were here to welcome Asiwaju back home, “ source told journalists.
Former minister of Niger Delta Development, Senator Godswill Akpabio, who briefly spoke with journalists after coming out from the meeting with the president-elect, said he was confident that he will become the next Senate president when the 10th National Assembly is inaugurated in June.
“My records will earn me the Senate presidency,” the former Akwa Ibom governor said.
