Taraba State Governor, Agbu Kefas, on Monday held a meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

Kefas arrived at the State House around 2 p.m. in the company of Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda before proceeding into a closed-door session with the President.

The meeting is Governor Kefas’s first official engagement with the presidency since reports emerged of his planned defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

He had earlier been scheduled to formally join the APC on November 19 but suspended the event, saying it would have been “insensitive” to celebrate politically while residents of Kebbi State were grieving the abduction of schoolgirls in Maga.

The planned defection came shortly after the Speaker of the Taraba State House of Assembly and 15 lawmakers dumped the PDP for the APC, citing the need to align with the centre and blaming the opposition party’s internal crisis for weakening its structure.

Governor Kefas, a retired Nigerian Army Lieutenant Colonel and former board chairman of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), was elected governor in March 2023 on the PDP platform.

He hails from Wukari and previously served as Taraba PDP chairman before emerging as the party’s governorship candidate in 2023.