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President Bola Tinubu is receiving Senate Majority Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, and Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani, at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa.
According to Punch, both men, dressed in matching sky-blue agbada, entering the Villa at approximately 4:20 pm.
The purpose of the visit had not been officially disclosed as of the time of filing this report.
However, it may be connected to Sani’s new role in the ruling party ahead of the Ekiti governorship election scheduled for June 20, 2026.
On April 26, the All Progressives Congress appointed Sani as Chairman of its Ekiti State Governorship Election Campaign Council.
The role places Sani at the centre of the APC campaign in Bamidele’s home state.
Sani is also the APC’s Coordinating Governor for the North-West and was appointed by Tinubu as Renewed Hope Ambassador and Deputy Director-General for party outreach, engagement, and mobilisation in February.
Tuesday’s meeting comes hours after APC nomination forms went on sale.
Bamidele’s return to the Villa comes barely a week after Tinubu rebuffed a push by the extended Senate leadership, which Bamidele was part of, for automatic return tickets ahead of the 2027 general elections.
At that meeting on April 22, multiple sources told The PUNCH that the President told the senators plainly that state governors, as the leaders of the APC in their respective states, would determine who gets the party’s ticket.
He subsequently formalised his position in a separate meeting with APC governors the following day.
Bamidele had himself described the April 22 meeting as one at which “far-reaching decisions were taken” on “matters of urgent national importance,” following a resolution at a closed executive session of the Senate earlier that day.
The Senate Majority Leader represents Ekiti Central Senatorial District and is one of the most high-profile senators whose re-election prospects are complicated by Tinubu’s stance on letting governors handle the primaries in their states.
His fate at the Senate primaries, now fixed for May 18, will be determined in significant part by his relationship with Ekiti State Governor Biodun Oyebanji.
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