President Bola Tinubu is at the moment assembly with the Kano State governor, Abba Yusuf on the Presidential Villa in Aso Rock, Abuja.
The president met with the governor at about 4.13 pm on Monday, January 19, 2026.
Yusuf’s assembly with Tinubu comes amid rumours of his deliberate defection from the New Nigeria Peoples Occasion (NNPP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Sources throughout the Villa stated the governor arrived for the assembly wearing his signature white babaringa and the favored crimson Kwankwasiyya cap, generally recognized for use by supporters of a former governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso.
Yusuf was stated to have gone straight to the president’s workplace upon his arrival on the Presidential Villa.
He’s additionally stated to be in search of the president’s viewers for the correct to appoint a minister to symbolize his State on the Federal Government Council
The heightened hypothesis over the governor’s attainable defection from the NNPP has continued to rock the polity with many claiming his defection has been postponed a number of instances.
His go to to the Villa additionally comes barely hours after the president returned from Abu Dhabi, the place he attended the 2026 Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week.