BREAKING: PDP Presidential Candidate Atiku Meets IBB in Minna, Photos Emerge

• PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, is a closed-door meeting with the former military leader, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida
• Atiku's running mate, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa; his Campaign DG, Governor Aminu Tambuwal and other PDP chieftains are with him in Minna
• Sources had earlier said that Babangida would intervene in the crisis rocking the PDP ahead of the 2023 general election

Minna, Niger state - The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, is in Minna, Niger state, to meet with former Military President General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (Rtd).

Atiku, according to The Nation, arrived at the Minna Airport around 12.45pm and was driven straight to the Uphill residence of Babangida.

In the entourage of the PDP flagbearer are his running mate Governor Ifeanyi Okowa; his Campaign DG, Governor Aminu Tambuwal; Taraba Governor Darius Ishaku; former Adamawa Governor Senator Boni Haruna; Former Imo Governor Emeka Ihedioaha; former Jigawa Governor Sule Lamido and former Niger Governor, Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu.

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Others include Senator Ben Obi, Senator Dino Melaye, Senator Abdul Ning and the Niger PDP Chairman and executives.

The meeting is ongoing, Vanguard also reported.

PDP Crisis: IBB to wade in as Atiku, Wike, other G-5 governors eye reconciliation

Meanwhile, Legit.ng earlier reported that Babangida was set to wade into the crisis rocking the opposition PDP ahead of the 2023 general election.

Sources had said IBB would hold a closed-door meeting with Atiku and aggrieved five governors of the party, otherwise known as G-5, in Minna, the Niger state capital, on Friday, November 11.

The sources hinted that the recent move at reconciliation leveraging on the outreach of IBB might have been powered by a former senior military intelligence officer and some interest groups from the North supporting the Atiku presidency.

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Wike, other aggrieved governors will soon drop their agitation, says Dele Momodu

In a similar development, Dele Momodu, the PDP presidential campaign council (PCC) director of strategic communication, has said the aggrieved governors of the party would soon drop their agitations.

Momodu said the governors and their allies, who have been at loggerheads with the PDP leadership, would soon change their game.

While speaking to journalists at the Atiku/Okowa presidential campaign headquarters in Abuja on Thursday, November 10, Momodu said the PDP is elated to know that the governors are open to reconciliation.

Source: Legit.ng