President Bola Tinubu is currently holding a closed door meeting with members of the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF) in the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
President Tinubu who is joined by Vice President Kashim Shettima, is meeting with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) state Executives for the first time since he was inaugurated last Monday.
Attending the meeting are governors Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos), Hope Uzodinma (Imo), Abdullahi Sule (Nasarawa), Umar Namadi (Jigawa), Inuwa Yahaya (Gombe), Yahaya Bello (Kogi), Professor Babagana Zulum (Borno), and Mai Mala Buni (Yobe).
Others are Uba Sani (Kaduna), Dikko Radda (Katsina), Father Hyacinth Alia (Benue), AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq (Kwara), Dapo Abiodun (Ogun), Umar Bago (Niger), Aliyu Ahmed (Sokoto), Francis Nwifuru (Ebonyi) and Bassey Otu (Cross River)
APC governors were not sighted at the meeting include Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (Ondo), Biodun Oyebanji, and Dr Nasir Idris (Kebbi).
Also in the meeting are the Permanent Secretary of the State House, Tijjani Umar, and former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu.
The agenda of the meeting, which kicked at about 11:35am, was not made available at the time of filing this report.