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Buhari to Attend ECOWAS Summit in Accra
Modupe Shodeinde
President Muhammadu Buhari will today participate in the 59th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government in Accra, the capital of Ghana.
A release issued yesterday in Abuja by presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, said that the President will depart Abuja today for the summit.
President Buhari is expected to join other Heads of State of Government of ECOWAS for the mid-year statutory meeting of the regional bloc, with the exception of Mali, which was recently suspended from the group.
Former president, Goodluck Jonathan, ECOWAS Special Envoy and Mediator to Mali, is expected to present a report on his latest working visit to the country to the Heads of State.
The Heads of State and Governments will also receive a report on ECOWAS institutional reforms, single currency programmes and a memorandum on the proposed mechanism of rotation of ECOWAS Member States’ candidature to the Chairmanship of the African Union.
A communiqué will be issued at the end of the summit.
President Buhari will be accompanied on the trip by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyema; Minister of State, Foreign Affairs, Zubairu Dada; Minister of Defence, Maj. General Bashir Magashi (rtd); Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire; Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, the National Security Adviser, Maj. General Babagana Monguno (rtd); Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador Ahmed Rufa’i Abubakar.
The President is expected back in Abuja at the end of the Summit.
