Three northern governors holds a separate closed-door meetings with Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday had a closed-door meeting, one after the other with three Northern governors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The three governors who were Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe State, Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto and Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa State all gave different reasons why they visited the president.

Disclosing his own reason with State House correspondents, Governor Gaidam said that he met with President Buhari to felicitate with him on his recovery from his medical trip as well as to demand for a refund of N13 billion his state expended on security issues during the last administration.

Gaidam added that he also solicited for assistance from the Federal Government over the resettlement of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in Yobe State.

Tambuwal said that he was at the Presidential Villa to chat about security situations in the country with the President and to deliberate on why it is necessary to explore oil on the Sokoto belt, which he said will improve the economic base of the country.

And Jigawa governor, Badaru also told State House correspondents that he came to let President Buhari know some of the efforts, a committee on how to diversify on non oil products, which he heads, is making..