{"id":154299,"date":"2025-03-07T19:02:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/el-rufai-meets-buhari-after-seyi-tinubus-visit"},"modified":"2025-03-19T10:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T09:16:07","slug":"el-rufai-meets-buhari-after-seyi-tinubus-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/el-rufai-meets-buhari-after-seyi-tinubus-visit","title":{"rendered":"El-Rufai meets Buhari after Seyi Tinubu\u2019s visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>El-Rufai visited Buhari at his residence in Kaduna State on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting comes just days after President Bola Tinubu\u2019s son, Seyi Tinubu, and the Minister of Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, also paid a visit to Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari, who handed over power to President Tinubu on May 29, 2023, initially returned to his hometown of Daura in Katsina State after leaving office.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2025, Buhari relocated permanently to Kaduna from Katsina.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting between El-Rufai and Buhari was disclosed by a staunch follower of the former governor, @IU_Wakili.<\/p>\n<p>Wakili wrote: \u201cMallam Nasir El-Rufai paid a visit to former President Muhammadu Buhari at his home in Kaduna today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPatiently waiting for somebody to call PMB irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe outcome of this meeting will decide if we are playing polo or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. El-Rufai visited Buhari at his residence in Kaduna State on Friday. The meeting comes just days after President Bola Tinubu\u2019s son, Seyi Tinubu, and the Minister of Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, also paid a visit to Buhari. Buhari, who handed over power to President Tinubu on May 29, 2023, initially returned to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":154298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,2660],"tags":[97,1651,254,10731],"class_list":["post-154299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-buhari","tag-el-rufai-2","tag-nigeria","tag-seyi-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>El-Rufai meets Buhari after Seyi Tinubu\u2019s visit - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"El-Rufai visited Buhari at his residence in Kaduna State on Friday. 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