Nigeria’s President, Goodluck Jonathan, has held a closed door meeting with the governors of the south west in the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.
The governors at the meeting were Babatunde Fashola of Lagos, Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti, Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun, and Rauf Aregbesola of Osun.
The Governors of Oyo, Abiola Ajimobi, and Ondo, Olusegun Mimiko, were absent from the meeting.
Emerging from the president’s office after the meeting which ended at about 5:36 p.m., the governors, who are all members of the opposition All Progressive Congress, APC, refused to comment on the matters discussed at the closed door parley with the president.
Pressed by journalists who were waiting to interview them, the Ekiti State governor, Mr. Fayemi, said, “We came to see the President. And it’s in connection with issues of national importance. It is for the development of the South West.”
Defending their decision not to comment on the meeting, the Ogun State Governor, Mr. Amosun, said “that is why it is called private meeting”.
Gov. Fashola of Lagos State simply told the State House correspondents that the meeting was a private one, adding “if there is the need for you to know, the Presidential aide will brief you.’’
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