The Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar, on Wednesday briefed his colleagues on the visit of some of them in July to London to see President Muhammadu Buhari.
The visit was termed a first-hand assessment of the President’s state of health, as well as to deliver the governors’ goodwill message.
Yari and six others visited Buhari in London on July 26.
Yari told his colleagues on Wednesday at their meeting in Abuja: “I was invited to select six governors, one from each geopolitical region, to visit Mr. President and I led them to London.
“The Governors are Akwa Ibom, Oyo, Kano, Benue and Kashim (Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State), with the last, but by no means the last person in the delegation being Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State.”
The Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum described Buhari as being “in very good health”, while assuring them that the he delivered the Forum’s message of goodwill to the President.
In response, Yari said Buhari thanked the governors for “holding Nigeria together in his absence”.
Yari told the NGF Buhari also thanked the governors for their cooperation with the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, and urged them to continue to put their faith in his leadership.
In attendance at the meeting were governors of Borno, Kebbi, Kwara, Niger, Imo, Osun, Plateau and a host Deputy Governors, among them those of Kaduna, Yobe, Nasarawa, Rivers, Enugu, Lagos, Ondo, Ekiti and Cross Rivers States.
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