National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has paid President Muhammadu Buhari a New Year visit at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The visit, which agenda was not officially made known, is believed to have afforded the two leaders of the ruling party the opportunity to discuss various party and national issues, including the proposed national convention of the APC, the Electoral Act amendment bill that President Buhari has withheld assent to, especially the sections that have to do with direct primaries and electronic transmission of results.

Also expected to have featured at the meeting is the strongly speculated presidential aspiration of Asiwaju Tinubu, a former two-term governor of Lagos state. Though he has not officially declared his ambition to run for the nation’s presidency, machinery for him to join the race is being vigorously fine-tuned.

Tinubu told State House Correspondents after the meeting that he used the opportunity of the parley to tell the president of his plans for the future.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, a former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Tinubu’s administration in Lagos is also strongly believed to be eyeing the nation’s number one position and is said to have used a yuletide visit to President Buhari to officially notify the incumbent of his aspiration.

The race will hot up as the year progresses, as apart from Tinubu and Osinbajo, other aspirants, from both the South and North of the country, are lining up to be counted.

There are strong arguments in the two leading parties, the APC and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the presidency to be zoned to the Southern part of the country and other arguments that it should be further zoned to the South East zone, but there are yet other arguments that it should be thrown open for the best person from any part of the country to emerge to lead the country out of its present challenges.

Some people who insist that it was through Tinubu’s efforts that Buhari was installed President have gone ahead to say that there is an agreement between the two that Tinubu should succeed Buhari. Though this has not been publicly corroborated, all eyes are on the APC and the leadership of the party to see how its convention will turn out and what form its primaries will take.

The outcome of the visit of Asiwaju Tinubu to President Buhari whether eventually made public or not may signal the direction of politics in the APC and the country as a whole in the days, weeks and months leading to the big race.