President Bola Tinubu is meeting with the Class of 1999 Governors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Tinubu, who is also a member of the Fourth Republic or contemporary democratic regime’s first elected group of governors, is one of them.
Daily Independent report that, Those taking part in the meeting include former Governors James Ibori (Delta State); Donald Duke (Cross River); Niyi Adebayo (Ekiti); Lucky Igbinedion (Edo); Orji Uzor Kalu (Abia) and Sam Egwu (Ebonyi).
Others are Chimaroke Nnamani (Enugu); Ibrahim Turaki Jigawa); Adamu Muazu( Bauchi); Obong Victor Attah (Akwa Ibom); Olusegun Osoba Ogun); Bisi Akande (Osun); Ahmad Yerima (Zamfara); Jolly Nyame (Taraba); Attahiru Bafarawa (Sokoto) and Joshua Dariye (Plateau).
They are the governors that established the fourth republic following the political machinations that led to the death of late Gen. Sani Abacha, followed by the brief tenure of Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar before the election of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999.
The ex-governors may have come to support President Bola Tinubu, who has taken office as Nigeria’s 16th president, Daily Independent has learned.
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