Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress on Friday said their mission to Daura, Katsina State was merely to condole with President Muhammadu Buhari over the loss of two members of his extended family.
The Chairman of the APC Governors’ Forum, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, stated this when he fielded questions from newsmen after a closed door meeting with President Buhari at his private resident in Daura on Friday.
Okorocha dismissed media reports that their mission to Daura was aimed at convincing the President to seek re-election in the forthcoming presidential election in 2019.
He said the governors also used the opportunity to commend the President for appointing Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as APC Chief Mediator.
The President had last week appointed Tinubu to reconcile aggrieved members of the party.
Okorocha said: “We are yet to discuss that.
“That would be in next the meeting where we will discuss whether we want to support him to run or not.
“But for now we came on the issue of the death of his two relatives and to commend him for action taken on Tinubu as a conciliator.”
Also speaking on the outcome of the meeting, Governor Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State said they were in Daura to also sympathise with the president over the involvement of his son, Yusuf, in a ghastly auto-accident and the death of his two relatives.
Al-Makura described the appointment of Tinubu as APC chief mediator as a wonderful initiative by the President.
He said: “After the condolences, we had some very intimate discussion that further bound our relationships and affinity together and I believe this is a continuation of our closed association and support, loyalty and commitment to Mr. President’s cause and Nigeria’s cause.”
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