Just in: Former president Ibrahim Babangida, Danjuma in secret meeting in Minna

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- Former president Ibrahim Babangida held a closed door meeting with General Theophilus Danjuma (rtd) on Thursday, March 1

- The meeting was said to have lasted for three hours

- A source revealed that the meeting might not be unconnected with the country's security situation and 2019 general election

Former President General Ibrahim Babangida on Thursday, March 1, held a closed door meeting with General Theophilus Danjuma (rtd) at the former’s hilltop mansion in Minna, Niger state.

The Sun reports that a very reliable source closed to the hilltop mansion said the meeting which took place at the inner parlour at the upper terrace of the building lasted for about three hours.

NAIJ.com gathered that Danjuma arrived at the Minna airport at exactly 11:45am and was driven straight to the Babangida's mansion and was ushered into the private parlour.

The duo, it was gathered, went into the meeting at about 1:00pm after they had lunch when they asked every other guests that accompanied the visitor to excused them.

It was gathered that the meeting ended 4:05p.m and Danjuma made way straight to his host private Mercedes Benz E class that brought him from the airport and zoomed off.

Journalists were caught unawares with the visit, but a source in the home of the retired army general said the meeting might not be unconnected with the current security and political situations in the country.

“I am very sure that they must have discussed the general situation in the country, both security and the political situation”

“Nobody was in the parlour with them. It was only two of them. The meeting started after they had lunch together and it lasted for about three hours.

“General Danjuma left the house here exactly 4:05 and he was taken straight to the airport. That is all I can tell you about the visits. He was actually here and they met,” the source added.

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The meeting is coming barely three weeks after Babangida released his controversial letter to President Mohammadu Buhari, advising him not to contest the 2019 general election.

Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had previously reported that Kassim Afegbua, the spokesman to former Nigerian military leader Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB), denied that his principal said President Buhari should not run in 2019.

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