President Bola Tinubu on Monday received Taiwo Oyedele, the Minister of State-designate for Finance, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, marking Oyedele’s first official audience with the President since his appointment.

Officers in the city said shots were fired towards the mansion in the middle of day on Sunday by a suspect driving a white Tesla, which had stopped across the street.

The defection follows weeks of speculation about Lawal’s move from PDP, which intensified after the Court of Appeal judgment on Oyo convention

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former governorship candidate in Zamfara State, Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi, has welcomed the defection of Governor Dauda Lawal from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling APC, describing it as a boost to the party’s momentum ahead of the 2027 elections.

Amid ongoing rift between Xavi Hernández and Joan Laporta, the latter has insisted that the same group of players who struggled under the club legend are now thriving under current manager Hansi Flick at FC Barcelona.