In the midst of sizzling crisis that has engulfed the All Progressives Congress, APC in Enugu state the national leader and presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, paid a courtesy visit to the governor of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, on Wednesday, January 11, 2023.
The APC presidential campaign train landed in Enugu State fueling speculation that Gov. Ugwuanyi might as well decamp to the party should he be defeated in his Senatorial bid in the forthcoming election.
The campaign was attended by thousands of supporters who came from different parts of the state.
Though Senator BolaTinubu received a rousing welcome from jubilant supporters at the campaign venue, many party bigwigs in the state like the immediate past governor Barr. Sulivan Chime, Rt. Hon. Eugene Odo, immediate past Enugu House of Speaker; Dr. Ben Nwoye, immediate past state Chairman of the party; Sen. Ken. Nnamani, former Senate President; Chief Godfrey Onyema, Foreign Affairs minister among others shun the campaign.
The presidential candidate pledged to make Enugu and other southeast industrial hubs if elected president in February 2023.
Shortly after the campaign rally, Tinubu paid a courtesy visit to Ugwuanyi at his office in the Michael Okpara Government House.
WITHIN NIGERIA gathered that Ugwuanyi is one of the aggrieved governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), known as the “G5 Governors.”
The governor warmly received Tinubu, led him into his office, where they had a closed-door meeting.
The governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, and his counterpart in Ebonyi State, David Umahi, were also present at the meeting
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