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TINUBU REUNITES WITH CLASS OF 99 GOVERNORS
President Bola Tinubu hosted his fellow 1999 class of governors at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Friday.
The Special Assistant to the President on Social Media, Dada Olusegun also confirmed the meeting in a post on his X handle on Friday.
Tinubu was the governor of Lagos from 1999 to 2007.
In the delegation were Adamu Aliero (Kebbi), Joshua Dariye (Plateau), Saminu Turaki (Jigawa), Boni Haruna (Adamawa), Donald Duke (Cross River), and Sam Egwu (Ebonyi).
Others were Lucky Igbinedion (Edo), Jolly Nyame (Taraba), Victor Attah (Akwa Ibom), Niyi Adebayo (Ekiti), and Adamu Mu’azu (Bauchi).
George Akume, secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), who served as governor of Benue state from 1999 to 2007, introduced his former colleagues at the start of the meeting.
Other former governors who were absent from the delegation were Bisi Akande (Osun), Olusegun Osoba (Ogun), Achike Udenwa (Imo), Abdullahi Adamu (Nasarawa), Ahmed Makarfi (Kaduna), Attahiru Bafarawa (Sokoto), Sani Yerima (Zamfara), Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano), Chimaroke Nnamani (Enugu), and Orji Kalu (Abia).
