Tinubu in closed-door meeting with governors, traditional rulers to stop August 1 protest

President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, met separately with Governors and a select team of traditional rulers, in continuation of his engagements and Mobilisation against the August 1st, #EndBadGovernance protest.

The President’s engagements with the Governors led to the shelving of the regular National Economic Council NEC meeting.

Recall that Mohammed Idris had hinted that the President will in the next few days widen his engagements with all strata of Nigerians as part of efforts to stop the mass protests.

The President was meeting with the Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are presently holding a closed-door meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, as at the time of filing this report

BusinessDay gathered from presidency sources that the meeting will be followed by that of the President and the traditional rulers

The Governors had arrived at the Villa in a Bus and were immediately ushered into the President’s office.

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The meeting is not unconnected to efforts by the President to put in place measures that will stop the planned August 1st to 10th protest against the present administration.

Since the news of the protest broke, the government has been putting in place measures to assuage the feelings of the promoters and their allies to stop the move.

The President had asked those planning to protest to shelve the idea and await the government’s response to their grievances.

The Progressives Governors’ Forum (PGF) also called on the organisers Wednesday night to shelve the planned protest.

Hope Uzodimma, while speaking after the meeting, said they were inviting the organizers of the planned protest to discuss the issue and their grievances.

According to him, “We don’t know what they are protesting for. We invite all of them to sit down with us in a room so we can discuss and agree on the issues, and what they are and proffer solutions.

“We as a body, we are committed to the unity of the country, we are committed to whatever thing that makes Nigerians live better lives, bring prosperity, jobs to be created for young boys and girls who graduated to be employed,” he said.