A former South African President, Thabo Mbeki, and
a former Head of State,Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar,
on Monday met with the All Progressives Congress
presidential candidate, Maj-Gen. Muhammadu
Buhari(retd.), in Kaduna ahead of the rescheduled
March 28 presidential election across the country.
At the closed-door meeting at the Jabi Road office
of the Katsina-born former Head of State, in the
heart of the city, neither the august visitor nor the
APC presidential candidate uttered a word to
journalists that besieged the venue after the about
one hour meeting, which stated at about 10am..
The guests had met with President Goodluck
Jonathan, who is the candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party in the coming election, in Abuja
on Monday.
Abubakar, who is also the Chairman of the Peace
Accord signed by the two leading presidential
candidates, left for the Kaduna International
Airport to catch a flight back to Abuja, after a
photo session to signal the end of the meeting at
about 11am.
Though, there was no official words as to what
transpired during the meeting, a source confided in
one of our correspondents in Kaduna that the
meeting was not unconnected with the March 28
rescheduled presidential election.
The source said, “This is a closed-door meeting and
its doubtful if they will talk to the pressmen. You
know they met President Jonathan too. You know,
all efforts to turn Nigerians against Gen. Buhari
had failed and opinion polls have favoured the old
man, even the ones conducted by the government".
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