Buhari Meets Ambode Behind Closed Doors

Gov. Ambode and President Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday held a gathering with Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State behind a shut entryway at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. 

It was accumulated that the senator would refresh the president on most recent political improvement inside the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State. 

It was charged that the representative's political back up parent, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and the administration of the APC in Lagos State have mounted weight on Ambode to drop his second term offer. 

Tinubu, who is charged to have embraced Ambode's rival inside the APC, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, had declined to back Ambode's second term aspiration in spite of requests by concerned people and a few socio-political gatherings from inside and outside Lagos state. 

As indicated by the News Agency of Nigeria, governors under the stage of APC, who met on Wednesday night in Abuja, had for the benefit of Ambode, looked for the mediation of President Buhari in the APC emergency in Lagos state. 

Succinct News accumulated that the Chairman of the APC Governors' Forum, Gov. Rochas Okorocha, conveyed the governors' message to the president couple of minutes before his gathering with Ambode. 

A source in the administration was cited by NAN as saying that the president may end the tussle among Ambode and the Mandate Group, driven by the APC National pioneer, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. 

It was likewise accumulated that the president may likewise meet with other APC partners in Lagos state inside the week as a component of endeavors toward settling the fracture.