Revealed: Why Saraki, Tinubu, Atiku met in Aso Rock without Buhari

– APC chieftains all smiles as they left Aso Rock after the meeting with Osinbajo

– The office of viice president issued a statement commenting the purpose of the meeting

The chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have met on February 24 in Aso Rock villa while President Muhammadu Buhari was away in Saudi Arabia for a state visit.

State House correspondents failed to receive any comments from the participants of the meeting.

Frantic efforts by the State House Correspondents to get a word from many chieftains of the All Progressives Congress, APC who rose from a crucial meeting with Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo at the presidential Villa on Wednesday afternoon met a brick wall.

National leader of the party, Bola Tinubu; former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; the party’s national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun; the Senate president Bukola Saraki and others met behind closed doors with the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.

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This was the very first time such a high powered meeting of the APC top leaders would be gathering in the office of the vice president since inauguration of Buhari’s government.

After the meeting the reporters swam around the politicians for comments but received silent smiles.

However, the air around the villa was heavy with rumours that they were meeting to meet an agreement for the presidency to soft pedal on the trial of Saraki at the Code of Conduct Tribunal over supposed false declaration of assets.

Speaking on the development the special adviser in Osinbajo’s office senator Femi Ojudu said that a statement would be published on the meeting which he referred to be as “consultative meeting” of the APC chieftains.

In a statement issued later, the spokesman of the vice president, Mr. Laolu Akande said the meeting was “very useful and resourceful”.

Akande was very tacit with words as he did not give information of the meeting.

It reads: “Select leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, drawn from the party’s National Headquarters, the legislative and executive arms of government had a consultative meeting on issues affecting the party and the nation.

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“The meeting, which held at the Vice President’s conference room, was very useful and resourceful towards achieving the goals of the party and the government.”

President Buhari is currently at Medinah for the lesser Hajj pilgrimage.

The Senate president recently lost his appeal in a Supreme Court and will on March 10, appear before the CCT in Abuja to face corruption charges the federal government preferred against him.

Saraki had after the apex court discharged the appeal he filed with a view to stopping his prosecution said he would have his day in the court to prove his innocence of the charge pending against him.

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