[UPDATES] Jonathan's Meeting With Two Former Heads Of State IBB And Abdulsalami In Minna

Nigeria's Immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday met separately with a former military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida, and a former military Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, at their Hilltop residences in Minna, the Niger State capital.

Jonathan arrived Babangida’s residence at about 11am and spent about one hour with his host before he left for Abubakar’s house situated right opposite IBB’s home, accompanied by a former Minister of State for Finance, Bashir Yuguda, from Zamfara State and his former Chief of Staff, Chief Mike Oghiadome, from Edo State.

Babangida received Jonathan in his private living room as against the common visitors’ room located downstairs where he usually received ordinary visitors.

The details of the discussions between the former Nigerian leaders remained top secret.

Although it was learnt that IBB and Jonathan held a closed-door meeting for about 50 minutes. While the meeting was going on, source disclosed that  Yuguda and Oghiadome were left at the living room downstairs.

Even as the details of the one-on-one of the two former leaders remained hidden there's been discussion in the public domain that the secret meeting might not be unconnected with the President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war and how it had been affecting Jonathan’s relations, particularly his wife, Patience.

An Agendum also speculated to have been thrown up in the meeting is the postponed Edo State governorship election, the 2019 general election as well as the state of affairs in the People Democratic Party.

Intelligience revealed that the duo of IBB and Abdulsalami in the separate meetings with Jonathan raised concern over the spate of bombings going on in the Niger Delta by the Niger Delta Avengers and the need to stop the trend.