Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has stated why he visited former President Muhammadu Buhari at his residence in Kaduna on Friday.
Atiku led a delegation of prominent politicians on the courtesy visit with former governors Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna, Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto .accompanied him.
Other notable delegates that accompanied Atiku on the visit included former governors Gabriel Suswan (Benue), Jibrilla Bindow (Adamawa), and Achike Udenwa (Imo), among others.
Posting on X, Atiku said the former president was in his humourous element with his rib-cracking jokes.
According to Atiku, his ribs hurt as a result of the jokes by the former president.
He wrote: “As the Waziri Adamawa, I was obligated to be in Adamawa during the Sallah celebrations. I held forth for the Lamido Fombina (Adamawa) in some of the activities of the Sallah celebrations.
“Today, I had the opportunity to pay a post-Sallah visit to His Excellency, Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2015-2023. It was a wonderful time with him. As usual, he cracked me up (to the extent that my ribs were hurting) with his peculiar humour.”
The visit comes more than 48 hours after the All Progressives Congress governors, led by Senator Hope Uzodimma, paid a similar visit to Buhari.