- Bukola Saraki was not at the national caucus meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) held on Monday, Tuesday, February 26
- Muhammadu Buhari, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and other top party officials were in attendance
The national caucus meeting of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) held late Tuesday, February 26, in Aso Rock Presidential Villa with the president of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, conspicuously absent from the event.
President Muhammadu Buhari, his deputy, Yemi Osinbajo, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the national chairman of the APC, John Odigie-Oyegun, governors, the speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, and many other top members of the party attended the meeting.
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Vanguard reports that the governor of Benue, Samuel Ortom, who had recently vowed not to attend any political gathering pending the resolution of the farmers/herdsmen clashes in the state, attended the meeting.
Earlier in the day, Saraki was reportedly in Edo state for an official engagement.
NAIJ.com earlier reported that security had been beefed up around the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s national secretariat, located at Blantyre Street in Wuse II, Abuja, ahead of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting slated for Tuesday, October 31.
This Day reported that the deployment of security personnel comprising a combine team of military, police and men of the Civil Defence started arriving very early in the morning with several truckloads of security men.
NAIJ.com also reported earlier how President Muhammadu Buhari chaired a meeting with senior members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) few hours after he earlier met with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu when the latter was appointed the head of a reconciliation team.
The meeting held at the new Banquet Hall of Aso Rock Presidential Villa.
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Source: Naija.ng
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Tuesday, 27 February 2018