APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu ran into the PDP presidential candidate , Alhaji Atiku Abubakar at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja on Monday.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned a veteran journalist, Chief Dele Momodu had tweeted about this and also posted pictures .
‘JUST IN, @atiku, TINUBU and @iyorchiayu meet at the airport VVIP lounge in Abuja’ he wrote.
A video of the ‘friendly meeting’ later surfaced online.
It was a friendly atmosphere and they engaged in some political banters.
As seen in the video, Tinubu also gave PDP National Chairman, former Senator Iyorchia Ayu a hug and exchanged pleasantries with him.
The only important conversation was Tinubu asking Atiku and others ‘Where are you guys going? And the former Vice President had replied that they had just arrived in Abuja and that their plane had landed just before his own did.
This was understandable because the three prominent Nigerians; Atiku, Tinubu and Ayu are longstanding friends. They were foot soldiers of late General Shehu Yaradua and were leaders of his group; the Peoples Democratic Movement.
Tinubu had wanted to become the Senate President in 1992 but eventually lost such an opportunity to Ayu , who eventually served as Chairman of National Assembly between 1992 and 1993, but this did not in any way affect their relationship negatively.
As Vice President , Tinubu, the then Governors Umaru Yaradua and Boni Haruna were Atiku’s main men.
While it was believed that Atiku saved Tinubu from a ‘ferocious political wind’ and made him get a second term in 2003, the Jagaban of Borgu also came to the aid of Atiku in 2007 by making him pick up the Action Congress presidential nomination with ease-Team@orientactualmags.com
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