All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader Bola Ahmed Tinubu has flown into Abuja to speak with President Buhari on how to settle the crisis rocking the party presently. Details of the meeting are still sketchy but it might not be unconnected with the crisis over the conduct of the party’s primaries nationwide.

Recall that the president on Tuesday hosted aggrieved aspirants of the party to a dinner at the Presidential Villa. Those in attendance at the dinner included aggrieved gubernatorial, National and State Assembly aspirants who failed to secure the party’s tickets in the forthcoming 2019 general elections.

The meeting was also attended by Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, cabinet ministers, and other presidential aides.

Meanwhile, Nassarawa state governor Tanko Al-Makura  has debunked rumours going around that he is set to support PDP presidential flagbearer Atiku Abubakar against President Buhari in next year’s general elections.

Umaru Al-Makura made the statement while reacting to online reports making the rounds of secretly meeting with the PDP presidential candidate in Dubai ahead of 2019 elections. Governor Al-Makura in a terse statement signed by his Director, Strategic Communications and Press Affairs, Yakubu Laimai, denied meeting with Atiku to support his presidential ambition against Buhari.

He described the allegations as irresponsible propaganda being sponsored in Nasarawa State over 2019. Al-Makura blamed the opposition party for the report, saying the calculated attempt was designed to smear his political position in his mother-party, APC.

The statement read: “The governor has never at any given time held a closed-door meeting in Dubai, UAE, with PDP’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar over 2019 general elections as published by an online media in the state.

“The claim that Governor Tanko Al-Makura has agreed to work for Atiku Abubakar to ensure he wins the presidential polls in Nasarawa State is not only a fallacy, distraction and attempts to sow seeds of discord in APC and with President Muhammadu Buhari, but a plan by the opposition to destroy the governor’s hard-earned good records in the state.”