President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday met separately with Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara and Ebonyi State Governor Francis Nwifuru, at the State House, Abuja.
Governor Fubara was sighted entering the State House at about 5:01 p.m. and was received by the Presidential Protocol Liaison Officer before proceeding to the President’s office.
He departed around 5:45 p.m., but details of the discussions were not disclosed as of press time.
Earlier , Governor Nwifuru had also been ushered in for a separate meeting with the President.
The purpose of his visit similarly remained undisclosed.
The meeting with Fubara comes on the heels of Friday’s defection of 17 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly.
Governor Nwifuru, a former Speaker of the Ebonyi House of Assembly and now an APC governor, has in recent months held several engagements with the Presidency, focusing largely on infrastructure development and security coordination in the South-East.