Taraba State Governor Agbu Kefas is meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

Kefas arrived around 2 pm on Monday with APC National Chairman Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda and entered a closed-door session with the President, a correspondent reported.

This is Kefas’ first visit to the Presidency since defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). He had initially planned an APC welcome on November 19 but postponed it, calling it “insensitive” following the abduction of schoolgirls in Maga, Kebbi State.

The governor’s defection follows similar political shifts in Taraba, where the Speaker of the state House of Assembly and 15 lawmakers left the PDP for the APC, citing the need to “align with the centre” and internal crises in the opposition party.

At the national level, the APC has been courting opposition figures ahead of the 2027 elections, with officials hinting at more high-profile defections from PDP strongholds in the North and Middle Belt.

Kefas, a retired Nigerian Army lieutenant colonel and former NIMASA board chairman, won the March 2023 governorship election on the PDP ticket. He is from Wukari and previously served as Taraba PDP chairman before becoming the party’s governorship candidate.