President Muhammadu Buhari will Sunday depart Abuja for Lome, Republic of Togo, to participate in two high-level meetings.
Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, made the announcement in a statement on Saturday.
He said on arrival, the President will have an interactive session at
the Nigerian embassy with the Nigerian community based in Togo.
On Monday, President Buhari will attend the Joint ECOWAS/ECCAS Summit
which will deliberate on common security threats to countries in West
Africa and members of the Economic Community of Central African States
(ECCAS) with a view to forging concerted strategies in tackling the
menace of terrorism, trans-border crimes and other forms of violent
extremism.
It would be recalled that President Buhari had expressed support for the
proposed ECOWAS/ECCAS Summit when he received the current Chair of the
ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, President Faure
Gnassingbe of Togo on June 29, 2018 in Katsina.
According to him, “terrorism now transcends international boundaries, and no country can combat the scourge alone.”
While in Lome, the Nigerian delegation will also participate in a
meeting on a Single Currency for ECOWAS with the deadline of 2020. Being
the largest economy not only in West Africa but also on the continent,
Nigeria’s leadership role in this sub-regional aspiration cannot be
over-emphasised.
On Tuesday, President Buhari will join other leaders of the sub-region
for the 53rd Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State
and Government.
This session will be dominated by the political and security situations
in Guinea Bissau, Mali and Togo; institutional reforms of the ECOWAS
Commission to enhance its effectiveness; illegal migration of Africans
to Europe; and the worrisome violent clashes between herders and
farmers, among other issues.
At the end of the session, a new Chair of the ECOWAS Authority is expected to take over from the incumbent and host.
President Buhari will be accompanied by Governors Ben Ayade and Abubakar
Bello of Cross River and Niger states respectively. Others are Minister
of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama; Minister of Defence, Mansur
Dan-Ali; Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun; Minister of Interior,
Abdulrahman Danbazau; and the Minister of Trade, Industry and
Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah.
The National Security Adviser (NSA), Babagana Monguno; the Chief of
Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Abayomi Olonisakin; the Director General of
the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ahmed Abubakar; and the Governor
of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, are also in the
President’s delegation.
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