Kano LP chairman, gov candidate meet Tinubu

Governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Kano State, Bashir Ishaq Bashir, met with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress on Sunday evening.

Sources said the meeting held in Abuja was centred around defection.

However, Bashir has neither officially announced his defection from LP nor stated whether he would abandon his governorship ambition or not.

Though the outcome of the meeting is not yet known, it is coming barely two weeks after the governorship candidate led other party leaders in Kano to boycot the rally of LP presidential candidate, Peter Obi, in Kano.

Among those who shunned Obi’s rally were LP Presidential Campaign Council director in Kano, Mohammed Zarewa; state coordinator of Peter Obi’s campaign, Balarabe Wakili; and Idris Dambazau, a member of the presidential campaign council.

Some of them met with Tinubu on Sunday.

Efforts to hear from the candidate on his meeting with Tinubu proved abortive as he neither answered his calls nor responded to a message sent to him for confirmation as of the time of filing the report.

The pictures of Tinubu’s meeting with Labour Party leaders in Kano, a state with a high voting population, has set tongues wagging.