Jonathan, Buhari hold closed-door meeting in Abuja

President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday met for about 40 minutes with the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, behind closed-doors at the new Banquet Hall of the State House, Abuja.

Buhari arrived the Presidential Villa at 3.00pm in an entourage comprising six black range rover and land cruiser jeeps.



Those that accompanied Buhari to the Presidential Villa include the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), John Oyegun and Abdulraman Dambazzau.

At the end of the meeting, Jonathan did not allow Buhari to answer journalists’ questions as he promised that there would be another opportunity for the President-elect to speak when he comes back to the Villa to familiarize himself with the State House environment.

Jonathan said: “We will take a date when the President- elect will come and I will show him round the State House but today is not for that. Today is to continue with our conversation. So we don’t need to worry the President- elect, we don’t need to worry him.”

On how fruitful the meeting was, he said: “You can see that we are smiling, it was a fruitful one.”
Asked further what they discussed, Jonathan said: “We are discussing for the interest of the country.”
When journalists pushed further to get Buhari’s comment on the meeting,, he said: “The President said it all.”