Former minister of defence, retired Gen Theophilus Danjuma, on Monday visited President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
It comes five months after Danjuma threatened to make damning revelation about Nigeria under Buhari.
The agenda of the meeting between President Buhari and his former boss in the Nigerian Army, whose last visit to the State House was over three years ago, was unknown as at the time of filing this report.
Danjuma did not speak to State House correspondents on the outcome of the meeting.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), however, gathered that Buhari and Danjuma may have deliberated on domestic and sub-regional issues bordering on security and socio-economic development in the country.
Danjuma had been a harsh critic of the Buhari government, particularly its handling of security matters.
In March 2018, the 81-year-old asked Nigerians to defend themselves against what he described as ethnic cleansing by herdsmen.
Speaking at the maiden convocation of Taraba State University, Jalingo, Danjuma said: “There is an attempt at ethnic cleansing in the state and of course, some rural states in Nigeria. We must resist it. We must stop it. Every one of us must rise up.
“Our Armed Forces are not neutral. They collude with the bandits to kill people, kill Nigerians. The Armed Forces guide their movements; they cover them. If you are depending on the Armed Forces to stop the killings, you will all die one by one.
“This ethnic cleansing must stop in Taraba State and other rural states of Nigeria otherwise Somalia will be a child’s play.
“I ask every one of you to be alert and defend your country, defend your territory and defend your state. Defend yourselves because you have no other place to go. God bless our country.”
He followed up in December 2019, saying if he reveals what is happening in the country, Nigerians will no longer sleep.
Speaking at a book launch at the University of Ibadan, Danjuma said: “In Yorubaland, everybody seems to have lost their voice, scared. And people appear not to care about what is happening. If I tell you what I know that is happening in Nigeria today, you will no longer sleep.”
He added: “We are in a big hole as nation. And people who put us in this hole have continued today. So, we’ve to wake up. Only we can save ourselves.”
Buhari, however, dismissed Danjuma’s vote of no confidence in a January interview, saying he was not bothered.
“And what is the vote of confidence of Nigerians in me, as expressed in the polls last year? That is what matters more, not the opinion of one man,” the president said.
