The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Honourable Mulikat Adeola-Akande, on Sunday, led about 120 members of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the House to a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan, ahead the March 28 and April 11 new election date, Nigerian Tribune can report.

Information pieced together by the Nigerian Tribune on Monday revealed that the PDP lawmakers were taken to the Villa in buses from the National Assembly at about 8.00 p.m.

The PDP caucus crucial meeting with the president, Nigerian Tribune learnt, was held late Sunday night, solely on strategies to deploy for the party to record landslide at the March and April elections.

However, against the background of tenure elongation allegation doing the round in the polity, the deputy House leader, Honourable Leo Ogor, who spoke via telephone interview on Monday night, said the meeting did not discuss anything about tenure elongation with the president.

According to him, “it was a PDP meeting, purely to discuss with Mr President as the party’s standard-bearer for the presidential election. That was it.”

Source: TRIBUNE