President Muhammadu Buhari has held a secret meeting with former president Olusegun Obasanjo in New York.
President Muhammadu Buhari, former British prime minister, Gordon Brown and
former president of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo during a bilateral meeting.
President Muhammadu Buhari has held a secret meeting with former president, Olusegun Obasanjo in New York over the weekend in a bid to calm the tension going on in the ruling party APC over the ordeal of the Senate president, Bukola Saraki.
According to The Leadership, the closed-door meeting which was held on Saturday, September 26, at the Millennium Plaza Hotel, lasted for about 45 minutes.
According to sources who were part of the meeting at its early minutes, Obasanjo called the protocol officers of President Buhari to schedule the talks in order to plead for a soft landing for Saraki.
Former governor of Ekiti state, Kayode Fayemi, was also sighted at the door of the room where the meeting took place. However, he did not speak with journalists as he was busy struggling with security men who repeatedly stopped him from gaining entry.
The source confirmed that former member of the House of Representatives, Abike Dabiri, has been pencilled down as the next Nigerian Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
Former president Obasanjo who was spotted on his way to his hotel, declined comments on his meeting with Buhari.