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By Adetutu Folasade-Koyi

For the first time since coming into office on May 29, 2015,  President Muhaammadu Buhari, yesterday, met, albeit briefly with Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike.
The meeting, which held behind closed door at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, started at about 2:00 pm inside Buhari’s office. Its agenda was not disclosed.
After the meeting, Wike reportedly declined to speak with State House Correspondents.
The meeting attracted attention because Buhari belongs to the All Progressives Congress (APC)while Wike is a member of the main opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The governor has had a running battle with his predecessor and former friend, Rotimi Amaechi, who is now Buhari’s Minister of Transportation.
Amaechi was the director-general of Buhari’s campaign organisation in 2015 and Wike has severally accused him of diverting the state’s fund when he was the governor, to sponsor APC’s campaigns in the 2015 general elections.
The former governor has since denied the allegation and has also rejected the corrupt toga.
Amaechi’s screening and confirmation as minister at the Senate will go down in history as the most prolonged for any nominee as his confirmatory hearing was serially postponed by the Red Chamber.
Before yesterday’s meeting, Wike had also been in a running verbal battle with the APC over the stalled rerun national and state assembly polls.
Wike has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of plotting to release some results in the eight local government areas it earlier cancelled in the March 19 legislative rerun elections in favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Wike  claimed that information at his disposal was that INEC was planning to release some of the results in the eight local government areas where the commission suspended elections.
“INEC is trying to help the APC by manipulating the result.
The APC lost badly in Rivers so they want to help Amaechi to save his face,” Wike said two months ago.
The governor also alleged that the nation’s electoral umpire is trying to subvert the will of the people as expressed by voters in the rerun elections.