Dogara, Tambuwal in private meeting with Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met privately with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and the Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Dogara and Tambuwal a former Speaker of the House of Representatives arrived in the same vehicle and spent about 45 minutes in the President’s office. The duo, declined comments on their meeting with the President simply stating that they had come to show their support .

Tambuwal fended off most of the questions from journalists with terse replies. Asked if the meeting had anything to do with the House of Representatives, he said: “Not at all.”

Asked if the meeting had to do with recession and sale of assets, he replied “I have already aired my views on the sales of assets.”

Journalists probed further to know if the meeting has anything to do with with the clash between the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu and the APC National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, he responded with: “I don’t know about that.”

 

Elizabeth Archibong