The Taraba State Governor, Agbu Kefas, is currently meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Naija News learnt that Kefas arrived at the State House in the company of Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda at about 2 pm on Monday before proceeding into a closed-door session with the President.
Monday’s meeting marks Governor Kefas’s first official engagement with the presidency since his planned defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He had been scheduled to receive a rousing welcome into the APC on November 19, but the governor suspended the ceremony, explaining that it would have been “insensitive” to hold a political celebration at the time residents of Kebbi State were dealing with the abduction of schoolgirls in Maga.
Just days before the governor’s party switch, the Speaker of the Taraba State House of Assembly, alongside 15 lawmakers, also dumped the PDP for the APC.
The legislators justified their move by stressing the need to align with the centre, blaming the national crisis rocking the main opposition party for weakening the PDP’s internal structure.
Governor Kefas is a retired Nigerian Army Lieutenant Colonel who formerly served as chairman of the board of the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). He won the March 2023 governorship election on the PDP ticket.
He hails from Wukari and had previously served as Taraba PDP chairman until his rise as the party’s 2023 standard-bearer.
