President Tinubu Meets Pius Anyim, Olisa Metuh in Abuja, Details Emerge
- President Bola Tinubu met with the former Senate President and SGF, Chief Pius Anyim and a one-time spokesman of the opposition PDP, Olisa Metuh in Abuja
- Both Anyim and Metuh, arrived together at the presidential villa at noon on Wednesday, July 5th, and went straight to the president's office
- The meeting coincides with the period Tinubu is about to submit the list of ministerial nominees to the senate for screening
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On Wednesday, July 5th, Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu held a closed-door meeting with Anyim Pius Anyim, a former senate president and ex-secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), at the presidential villa, Abuja.
The Cable reported that Anyim was accompanied to the meeting by Olisa Metuh, a former spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
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Tinubu meets PDP members at the Villa
Both men arrived at the villa together at exactly 1:30pm and headed straight for the president’s office, Vanguard report added.
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The details of the meeting were unknown as of press time.
Details of their Tinubu's meeting with Metuh, Anyim emerges
Wednesday’s meeting came about one month after Tinubu, an All Progressives Congress (APC) powerbroker and candidate in the February 25 poll, met with a group of aggrieved politicians within PDP known as the G5 or the Integrity Group, The Nation report added.
The meeting comes amid reports that Tinubu has drawn up his list of ministerial nominees from across party lines, with technocrats, career politicians and civil servants to boot.
At different meetings since his inauguration on May 29, Tinubu has promised to be the president of all Nigerians, irrespective of who voted or didn’t vote for him.
Exclusive: State likely to produce President Tinubu's minister of finance revealed
In another development, President Bola Tinubu is said to be nursing the idea of nominating a minister of finance from Lagos.
This was disclosed to Legit.ng by a Lagos-based lawyer, Wale Adeagbo, in an exclusive chat.
Adeagbo said a reliable source told him that:
"The minister of finance is likely going to be from Lagos.
"A very powerful Chieftain (of the APC) from Ikorodu disclosed so."
President Tinubu tenders his academic record from Chicago State University
Legit.ng reported that President Bola Tinubu had defended himself against the controversies surrounding his educational background before the presidential election petition court in Abuja.
Through his lawyer, Wole Olanipekun, the president tendered his academic records from the Chicago State University on Tuesday.
This came as the president opened his defence against the petition filed by the PDP and Atiku on the outcome of the 2023 presidential election that produced Tinubu as president
Source: Legit.ng
