A Rep-Elect, Hon Abdulmumin Jibrin, has revealed that Governor Abdullahi Ganduje consented to President-elect Bola Tinubu’s meeting with Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso in France.
Tinubu and Kwankwaso met for four hours on Monday.
Ganduje said he expressed reservations about meeting the president elect, noting that Tinubu had decided to see his estranged patron Kwankwaso as an alternative.
Ganduje stated in a leaked recording with Ibrahim Masari, former Vice-Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), that Tinubu should have consulted or invited him to the meeting with Kwankwaso.
However, Jibrin, who was there at the meeting in France, stated that Ganduje verified to him that Tinubu consulted him before the meeting.
“Lke every other Nigerian, I was very shocked when I listened to that audio but I think the most important thing is that I want to confirm to you that Governor Ganduje was consulted.
“And he himself confirmed this to me, told me in clear words that the President-elect invited him and told him that he is planning meeting with Kwankwaso and asked he Ganduje if he had any objections to it, and Ganduje told me that he told the President-elect that he has no any objection.
“So it is extremely unfair for the president-elect to be portrayed in bad light before the public by Governor Ganduje who knows very well that the president consulted him before that meeting because he confirmed that to me clearly.
“It is very very unfair to the president-elect, and I do not believe that the Mr president will abandon anyone who supported him… but again, what is paramount is national unity, cohesion and development.”
