Taraba State Governor Agbu Kefas is meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja
Kefas arrived at the State House around 2 pm on Monday, accompanied by APC National Chairman Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, and proceeded into a closed-door session with the President, a correspondent reported.
This marks Kefas’ first visit to the Presidency since he defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). He had initially planned an APC welcome on November 19 but postponed it, describing it as “insensitive” in light of the abduction of schoolgirls in Kebbi State’s Maga area.
The defection follows a wave of political shifts in Taraba, with the Speaker of the state House of Assembly and 15 lawmakers leaving the PDP for the APC, citing the need to “align with the centre” and concerns over internal party crises at the national level.
At the national stage, the APC has been actively courting opposition figures ahead of the 2027 elections, with officials hinting at more high-profile defections from PDP strongholds in the North and Middle Belt.
Kefas, a retired Nigerian Army lieutenant colonel and former NIMASA board chairman, won the March 2023 governorship election on the PDP platform. He hails from Wukari and previously served as Taraba PDP chairman before becoming the party’s governorship candidate.
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