Yakasai, who was not part of the team that visited Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, spoke in a statement he issued.
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The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, made this known in a statement.
Yakasai, while making his presentation at the North West Zone Public Hearing on the Review of the 1999 Constitution in Kaduna, canvassed for the strengthening of the Federal Police for optimal performance.
The group made the call in a communique issued as part of its resolutions after a peace talk by selected Nigerian leaders convened in Lagos by Nigerian National Summit Group in collaboration with the Charles Anyiam-Osigwe Foundation.
In a statement that may raise the political stakes well ahead of the main contest, a leading Northern politician has said Vice President Yemi Osinbajo could be the next president.
While receiving in audience the newly formed Northern Leaders and Stakeholders Assembly, led by its Chairman, Tanko Yakasai, Babangida said politics is all about togetherness and betterment of the country.
Buhari, at a National Executive Council meeting of APC on Monday in Abuja, announced his intention to seek a second term in 2019.
NLSA’s Chairman, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, who performed the inauguration on Wednesday in Abuja, said that NLSA was a political but non-partisan organisation.