President Bola Tinubu convened a private meeting with governors from the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday evening at the State House in Abuja.
The high-level discussion, held at the Presidential Villa’s Conference Hall, included members of the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF), the collective body representing APC governors.
The gathering took place just hours before the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting, set for Thursday, July 24, 2025, at the State House Banquet Hall.
Senator Hope Uzodimma, PGF Chairman and Governor of Imo State, was expected to lead the delegation of 23 APC governors to what insiders described as a “critical” session amid recent party developments.
Notably, Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Ekiti State Governor Biodun Oyebanji were among the first to arrive at the venue.
Sources indicated that President Tinubu would brief the governors on key federal policies and discuss internal party matters, including the selection of a new APC National Chairman following Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje’s resignation last month. The outcome of the meeting was expected to influence major decisions at Thursday’s NEC session, where leadership and structural changes are likely to be addressed.
Dele Fashomi, seasoned journalist and communication teacher, is a holder of Master of Arts degree in Communication and Language Arts from the University of Ibadan in 1992/93.
Earlier, he had bagged a Bachelor degree from the same university in 1984, after which he proceeded to the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, in 1990, for a postgraduate diploma in Journalism.
He had done many courses in communication, including the EU-BBC Editing Course in 2002.
Mr. Fashomi combines effectively the practice, research and teaching of communication. And to date, he has published two academic works in communication: Issues in Communication Technology and Policy (2010) and Economic and Social Issues in Advertising and PR (2013).
He had his first break in the Nigerian media in Concord Newspapers in 1990 and today, he has over two and half decades experience earned in several newspapers.
He has been part of many start-ups, such as The Republic (1987), The Comet (1999), The Anchor 2001 – 2002; Sun Newspapers (2003); Westerner newsmagazine (2005 – 2010) as Editor; National Life (2011) as Sunday Editor, and Newswatch Newspapers (2012- 2016) as Daily Editor.
Dele Fashomi is now the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Newstide247.com newspaper online, which he started in July 2015. He is also into biography writing, with many books in his trail, some of which he wrote alone and one he co- authored with his mentor, Mr Dare Babarinsa, entitled: Olabiyi Durojaiye – DARE TO BE DiFFERENT. He also guided and collaborated with Pa Olatunji Odusanya in writing his autobiography – AGAINST ALL ODDS. There are many other books in the works under his pen.
