(http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/thumbnail.php?file=bola_626442511.jpg&size=article_medium) Tinubu The National leader of Action Congress of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Monday denied holding any meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan, even as he affirmed that he was not in town for the said interraction.
The former Lagos State governor also said there was no meeting between the state governor Babatunde Fashola and the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu with Jonathan.
The clarification from the ACN leader comes amid speculations that there was a meeting between the trio and the president when he visited Lagos.
Tinubu said, he would be favoraurably disposed to meeting with the president, if it cuts across party lines, with a view to seeking their views on how to unlock the spate of threats, insecurity and other national headaches, if he invites him.
The ACN leader, said much as any of such meetings called at the instance of the president is convoked without politicizing issues, it will be good for all stakeholders in the Nigerian project to put their heads together to find a common solution to the problems starring the nation in the face.
Tinubu, who spoke to journalists at the private terminal of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, on his way to visit the Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, over the recent auto accident involving his convoy was accompanied by the National Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, former Ekiti State governor, Niyi Adebayo, and the ACN Spokeman, Lai Mohammed.
Tinubu said: “That report is not correct. To tell you categorically, I did not attend any meeting with the president in company of Oba of Lagos. I wasn’t even aware that the president was coming to Lagos until later after the visit of the Oba at night. So there was no meeting between myself, president and the Oba of Lagos and I am very sure that the governor did not attend any such meeting with the president."
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