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- A viral tweet claimed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu hosted Mallam Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso astatine the Presidential Villa, today, Wednesday, April 23, 2025
- Kwankwaso is simply a erstwhile minister, one-time senator, erstwhile Kano authorities governor, and erstwhile statesmanlike candidate
- Amid the defections of apical Delta politicians similar Governor Sheriff Oborevwori and Ifeanyi Okowa, a assertion surfaced astir an alleged gathering betwixt President Tinubu and Kwankwaso
Legit.ng writer Ridwan Adeola Yusuf has implicit 9 years of acquisition covering elections, authorities and governance successful Nigeria.
FCT, Abuja - A well-followed X (formerly Twitter) page, A. Ayofe, made a societal media work claiming that one-time statesmanlike campaigner Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso held a closed-door gathering with President Bola Tinubu.
A. Ayofe (@abdullahayofel) insinuated that the gathering happened successful Aso Rock connected Wednesday, April 23, 2025.
Source: Twitter
Ayofe posted a 43-seconds video showing the 2 politicians posing for a photograph aft what appeared a meeting.
His assertion comes amid notable defections connected Wednesday, April 23.
Legit.ng had reported however Delta authorities governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
In the aforesaid vein, the contiguous past politician of Delta state, Ifeanyi Okowa, defected from the PDP to the APC. The announcement came 2 years aft Okowa stood arsenic the moving mate of Atiku Abubakar of the PDP successful the Nigerian statesmanlike election.
Messrs Oborevwori and Okowa's governmental steps elicited beardown reactions crossed the authorities and Nigeria, with galore expressing astonishment implicit the their decision.
The caption of Ayofe's video with immoderate emojis reads:
"BREAKING: Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso successful closed-door Meeting With President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu....Jagaban (referring to President Tinubu) maestro strategist."The video has been watched by much than 70,000 people, and it has garnered 120+ replies, implicit 330 reposts, 1,100 likes, and 85 bookmarks.
Is this assertion correct? Legit.ng checked.
Verification of video purporting Tinubu, Kwankwaso meeting
Legit.ng scrutiny showed that the clip is an aged video from 2023.
On Friday, June 9, 2023, President Tinubu met with Senator Kwankwaso, 1 of his cardinal challengers successful the February 25, 2023, statesmanlike election, astatine Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Kwankwaso, who came 4th successful the election, was the statesmanlike campaigner of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP).
At the time, helium was the archetypal statesmanlike campaigner to sojourn Tinubu astatine Aso Rock.
Lawmaker Abdulmumin Jibrin, erstwhile coordinator of a run radical of Tinubu, joined the NNPP person to the statesmanlike villa.
Addressing State House correspondents aft the meeting, Kwankwaso said helium discussed governance with the president.
In the past year, Kwankwaso has been 1 of the vocal critics of President Tinubu.
Kwankwaso did not conscionable President Tinubu connected a time large defections happened successful Delta state. @abdullahayofel shared an aged video.
Kano lawmaker Kawu defects from NNPP to APC
Earlier, Legit.ng reported that Senator Abdulrahman Kawu Sumaila, representing Kano South senatorial district, officially defected from the NNPP to the ruling APC.
The erstwhile elder peculiar adjunct to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari connected nationalist assembly matters confirmed his defection successful a little connection to journalists successful Kano.
Senator Sumaila was among 4 lawmakers antecedently suspended by the NNPP’s Hashimu Dungurawa-led faction successful Kano implicit alleged anti-party activities.
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