The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu was invited to President Bola Tinubu's meeting with the Class of 1999 Governors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja but he declined, presidency sources told our correspondent on Friday.

Both Tinubu and Adamu are members of the set of Governors, which was the first set of elected Governors of the current democratic dispensation, also known as the Fourth Republic. They both served for two terms (1999-2007) in Lagos and Nasarawa states respectively.

Among the 36 governors 10 are deceased. They are Abubakar Abu Hashidu (Gombe); Chinwoke Mbadinuju (Anambra); Diepreye Alamieyeseigha (Bayelsa); Mala Kachalla (Borno); Umaru Musa Yar'adua (Katsina); Abubakar Audu (Kogi); Mohammed Lawal (Kwara); Abdulkadir Kure (Niger); Adebayo Adefarati (Ondo) and Lam Adesina (Oyo).

Only 17 governors attended the meeting with the president. Those in attendance at the meeting were the chairman of the group and former governor of Edo State, Lucky Igbinedion; James Ibori (Delta), Donald Duke (Cross River), Niyi Adebayo (Ekiti), Orji Uzor Kalu(Abia), and Sam Egwu (Ebonyi).

Others were Chimaroke Nnamani (Enugu), Ibrahim Saminu 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).

When asked why Adamu, who is the National Chairman of the president's party was absent, a senior presidential aide said the invitation was sent to him but no reason was given as to why he couldn't attend.

Several calls made to Adamu's mobile number were not answered as to why he didn't attend the meeting.

However sources said the relationship between the embattled national chairman and the president had been fractured even before the outcome of the presidential primary of the party in June last year.

Adamu had publicly endorsed immediate past Senate President, Ahmad Lawan as the consensus candidate of the APC, a move which many stakeholders of the party rejected.

Speaking in a recent interview on Arise TV on whether he regretted his decision to support Lawan, Adamu said " think that’s a soft selling point for you media people. It is true that at the time that I made a presentation to the National Working Committee (NWC), the name of Senator Ahmed Lawan was thrown up".

“That was before the convention. So many things took place between then and the actual date of the convention and you saw what culminated in the convention unanimously. I was there and I led the convention of the party.

“A day after the convention, I took the entire working committee to his (Tinubu’s) house in Asokoro and assured him of our support and said we will stand shoulder to shoulder with him and ensure that the mandate was sold properly to the people of Nigeria. We won the election. Instead of being praised, we are vilified,” he said.

The National Working Committee (NWC) led by Adamu is also polarised as the National Vice Chairman (North-West), Salihu Moh. Lukman, in an interview this week said Adamu willfully refused to extend financial support to President Tinubu in the build-up to the 2023 general elections.

There are reports that a vote of no confidence may be passed on Adamu at the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting scheduled to hold next week.

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Wike have gone so cold since after realizing that no juicy position for him from the peepoo

TINUBU has shown Wike the real character of a Yaribanza (betrayal). Now his phoolishness has gotten him humbled

Don’t sell your brother to gain favor from an outsider because the outsider won’t trust or respect you.

So, what's the economic importance of the meeting to an average Nigerian

Next time, Wike will be very careful working with someone with this kind of head 😂😂

You don't expect anything from the Class of 1999 criminals

Zonefree:
So, what's the economic importance of the meeting to an average Nigerian

Tinubu has no true friends

No same man will honor this gecko as his president

Mystic216:
No same man will honor this gecko as his president

He's an illegitimate president, nobody takes him serious

Life has never been the same between Abdullahi Adamu and Bola Tinubu since the last presidential primary of the APC. It has been a no love lost relationship.

Adamu should save himself from disgrace by resigning. You supported Lawan and think Tinubu will be happy with you

A church rat man like you can't understand

Zonefree:
So, what's the economic importance of the meeting to an average Nigerian