President Bola Tinubu on Thursday met governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress at the State House in Abuja, with the session starting about 5 p.m. after an earlier plan to hold it at 4 p.m. in the Council Chamber. The meeting was moved to the conference room of the president’s office before it got under way.
Governors Babagana Zulum, Hope Uzodimma, Inuwa Yahaya, Hyacinth Alia, Biodun Oyebanji, Peter Mbah and AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq were among those present, while some states were represented by their deputy governors. The agenda was not made public.
The gathering came after Tinubu held an emergency closed-door session with Senate leadership on Wednesday, a meeting that Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele said produced “far-reaching decisions” on matters of urgent national importance. With the APC governors’ meeting coming barely three weeks before the party’s primary elections ahead of the 2027 polls, the timing has added weight to a day of back-to-back political consultations at the Villa.
What the president discussed with the governors remains undisclosed, but the sequence points to a period of hurried internal coordination between the presidency, the Senate and APC state leaders as the party moves toward its primaries. That makes the next public signal from the Villa, whether on party strategy or national issues, the one to watch.
