Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu will jet out to Guinea Bissau on Saturday to attend the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States.
This was made known by The President’s Special Adviser on Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, Dele Alake, via a statement released on Friday in Abuja.
Participants at the summit, which begins on Sunday, are expected to address memoranda on five pressing sub-regional issues.
They include the report of the 50th ordinary session of the Mediation and Security Council covering security challenges faced by the member countries; report of the 90th ordinary session of the ECOWAS Council of Ministers on the financial situation of the body and the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area, as well as the report on the status of transition in the Republics of Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea.
Another item on the discussion table is the memoranda on the ECOWAS single currency programme and the report on obstacles to the free movement of goods on the Abidjan-Lagos corridor.
Guinea-Bissau is the first African state Tinubu is visiting since assuming office on May 29, 2023.
Recall that the Guinea Bissau president, Umaro Sissoco Embaló also visited Tinubu in Lagos last week.
So far, Tinubu has visited Paris, France, where he participated in the summit for ‘A New Global Financing Pact’ hosted by French President, Emmanuel Macron, on June 22 and 23.
From June 24 to 27, the President was in London for a private visit, where he reportedly met his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari.
President Tinubu will return back to Nigeria on Sunday.