Former senate president Anyim Pius Anyim has reveal why he visited President Bola Tinubu at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday.
Anyim, a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation under President Goodluck Jonathan, met with Tinubu alongside former National Publicity Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party, Olisah Metuh.
In 2022, Anyim declared his intention to run for President on the PDP’s ticket.
He was later suspended by the in March 2023 for alleged anti-party activity when he supported the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Ebonyi State, Francis Nwifuru.
Meanwhile, Metuh publicly resigned from the PDP and partisan politics in October 2022, he cited medical grounds for his decision.
Speaking to journalists after the meeting, Senator Anyim said they had some frank and sincere discussion with Tinubu.
He said aside from the heart-to-heart conversations, Wednesday’s visit was mainly to encourage and congratulate the President on his inauguration and the successes he has so far recorded.
“It was a great honour to pay courtesy to the President and congratulate him, first and foremost, for his successful inauguration as the 16th President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and also to encourage and congratulate him for the bold he has taken so far.
“We had a whole lot of heart-to-heart discussions, but primarily, it’s to congratulate him,” Anyim said.
Also speaking, the former PDP spokesman, Metuh, said although the country had bled for the past eight years, he is confident that the Tinubu administration will achieve national unity.
He said “We came to see the President, to commend him for his very good takeoff; the policies he has brought, his inclusiveness, and most of all to canvass for the idea of participatory governance, participatory democracy.”