By Harry Awurumibe, Editor Abuja Bureau
A group of former governors who superintended their states at the dawn of the 4th Republic on Wednesday paid a courtesy visit to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who was one of them at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Prompt News reports that the 26 out of 36 ex-governors who attended the private meeting with Tinubu were Lucky Nosakhere Igbinedion, Edo; Sam Omiyi Egwu, Ebonyi; Donald Duke, Cross River; Attahiru Bafarawa, Sokoto; Obong Victor Attah, Akwa Ibom, James Onanefe Ibori, Delta and Joshua Dariye, Plateau.
Others are Chimaroke Nnamni, Enugu; Orji Uzor Kalu, Abia; Bisi Akande, Osun; Adamu Muazu, Bauchi , Segun Osoba, Ogun and Jolly Nyamen, Taraba.
Speaking to State House Correspondents after the closed doors meeting with Tinubu, former Edo state governor Lucky Igbinedion revealed that the Class of 1999 governors came to felicitate with one of their own on his victory at the pools and as the new Chairman of ECOWAS Heads of State over the weekend.
Igbinedion who spoke on behalf of his colleagues also disclosed that they discussed various burning national issues and tasked the President to prioritise the issue of security and epileptic electricity supply now plaque the country.
Said he: “First and foremost, the former governors have come to congratulate one of our own for his victory at the pools and as the new Chairman of ECOWAS Heads of State over the weekend.
“We talk about high level of insecurity in the country, epileptic electricity supply which confronts the nation. We told him that we support the subsidy removal. We also plead with Nigerians to support his government”.
According to him, 26 out of the 36 ex-governors of the 4th Republic came to see Tinubu, regretting that some of their members have left the world.
