As part of his consultation moves, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be engaging governors of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in a meeting on Friday, June 2, 2023.
The City Gazette understands that the gathering, reportedly slated to hold at the State House, will be presided over by Imo State Governor Hope Uzodinma, recently elected Chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum.
The president will be officially meeting with the APC governors for the first time since his inauguration on Monday, May 29.
Among the attendees, nine governors are newly elected, while the other 11 are returning to their positions.
An insider privy to the scheduled meeting confirmed that some of reasons the president summoned the meeting include the selection of National Assembly leadership positions, ministerial appointments, and the smooth running of the newly inaugurated government.
It was also learnt that some of the governors who explore the opportunity to present their preferred candidates for various elective positions to the president.
President Tinubu has given his word that he would ensure that all stakeholders carried along in his government formation process.
However, the issue of fuel subsidy removal which has caused a lot of hardship to Nigerians would also form parts of the topics to be discussed.
In the meeting, the president is also expected to highlight his administration’s measures for addressing the effects of the subsidy removal, considering that petrol prices have surged to as high as N750 per litre throughout the country.
Meanwhile, the Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL, Mele Kyari has doused lingering tension arising from the sudden spike in the price of fuel, noting that normalcy would return to the country as fuel price would come down in the next two or three weeks.
He, therefore, urged Nigerians to be calm amid the current fuel price hike.
