Buhar and Jonathan

Worried about growing insecurity in the country, the former President, Goodluck Jonathan, Thursday met his successor, Muhammadu Buhari for about five minutes at the Presidential Villa.

It was on the same day the President met with Security Chiefs in the country on the heels of calls by the National Assembly that he should sack all the Service Chiefs if they fail to resign as a result of the debilitating security situation.

It is not known whether the meeting with Jonathan, who came from the Niger Delta, a volatile area in Nigeria with potentials for causing problems, has anything to do with the current situation or whether it is a purely personal visit, as the parley was held behind closed doors.

But Buhari was said to have met with the former President he defeated in 2015 for just five minutes after he arrived the Presidential Villa at about 1.45pm and was promptly ushered into the President’s office.

After the meeting, the President, personally escorted his visitor to his waiting car in front of his office without any of them saying anything concerning the visit, the second time since October, when Jonathan visited, his successor just few days to the governorship election in his Bayelsa State, which sparked off some speculations when his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), lost surprisingly to Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC).

For a long time now, Jonathan seems the only former President, who has visited the seat of power individually, while others have either kept away or have not been invited, except during official events or meetings that had to do with their previous