The meeting President Muhammadu Buhari held with governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday ended in deadlock.
None of the governors addressed state house correspondents when they left the council chamber of the presidential villa at the end of the meeting.
Rochas Okorocha (Imo), Simon Lalong (Plateau) and Nasir el-Rufai (Kaduna), explained to reporters that a unanimous agreement was reached at the meeting not to talk to the media.
On his way out, one of the governors said “Some people think they are tall but they can never control us. Never!”
The contentious issue of tenure extension for members of the party’s National Working Committee was said to have dominated discussions at the meeting.
After the meeting reportedly ended in a deadlock, it was also learnt that there was a sharp disagreement among the governors over the choice of date to reconvene.
Abdulaziz Yari, governor of Zamfara state, had chosen April 9 but el-Rufai tackled him on the choice of the date.
Before the meeting went into a closed door session, Buhari had nominated Lalong and the Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Bagudu, to say the opening prayers.
All APC state governors attended the meeting while Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and some top presidential aides and government officials also attended.
During the last national executive committee (NEC) meeting of the party, Buhari said he was against the extension of the NWC period in office by a year.
As a means to prevent a fresh crisis, some stakeholders had reportedly proposed a caretaker committee to be led by Adams Oshiomhole, a former governor of Edo.
Oshiomhole and Oyegun are from the same state.