President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday evening received the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, at his official residence in the State House, Abuja.
His reception was announced in a two-photograph press statement released by the Special Assistant to the President on Digital Communications, Bashir Ahmad, on his verified Twitter handle.
Although the motive behind the meeting was not disclosed, Daily Trust learnt that it focused on the ongoing APC presidential campaigns.
Ahmad on his Twitter handle @BashirAhmad wrote: “President Muhammadu Buhari receives our Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu earlier today, in his residence at the State House, Abuja”.
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, earlier in the day, had paid a visit to Asiwaju Tinubu at his Abuja residence.
Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has said the APC campaigns have so far been the most aggressive in recent history compared “to the opposition that seems to be playing catch-up.”
“They have been impressive and of a high voltage,” he said in a statement issued on Wednesday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu.
The President again expressed optimism that the party would win all the elections fairly and squarely.
President Buhari assured the APC and its candidates in the elections next year that he was ready at all times to campaign for them, including the presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu with “full energy and conviction.”
Shehu said this was to dispel expressed concerns in certain quarters that the President had not featured in campaigns since the national launch in Jos, Plateau State and to stress that while he remained committed to party politics, the functions and duties of the President would equally be upheld at times.
President Buhari, while speaking to the Nigerian community in Washington DC in the course of his recent visit to the United States, had stressed what he said all the time that he was ready to campaign for the party’s victory in the general elections next year.
