Yar’Adua, Atiku in secret talks - Nigerian Tribune

Indications have started emerging that both President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar have started closing ranks.

A top ranking member of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) is said to be facilitating the new development, having reportedly convened a meeting in his house located at the GRA kaduna about two weeks ago.

A Kaduna-based scholar, Murtala Atai, hinted Sunday Tribune of the meeting between Yar’Adua and Atiku, disclosing that the two had held fruitful talks likely to smoothen the relationship between them.

Both Yar’Adua and Atiku have been referring to each other as brothers with emphasis that the issues on the controversial April presidential election were not enough to sink the long standing relationship which had existed between them. Full Story