President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met behind closed door with former Head of State, Retired General Abdulsalami Abubakar, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Also at another secret meeting with Buhari were the national leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu andn another APC chieftain, Chief Bisi Akande.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the meeting took place immediately after President Buhari received letters of Credence from the Ambassador of Niger to Nigeria, Mr. Alat Mogaskia; the High Commissioner of Ghana, Alhaji Rashid Bawa and that of Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy Sea to Nigeria, Most Rev. Archbishop Antonio Guido Filipazzi.
The former Head of State declined to speak to State House correspondents after the meeting, which lasted for less than one hour.
NAN reports that barely hour and half hours after his meeting with Abdulsalami, the President also met behind closed doors with two chieftains of the APC, Tinubu and Akande.
NAN reliably gathered that two APC chieftains were in the Villa to console the President, who lost two members of his extended family in Daura recently.
NAN observed that Tinubu is visiting the Presidential Villa for the first time since his appointment by President Buhari as APC “Chief Mediator”.