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President Bola Tinubu recognizes that Nigeria is being looked to for leadership, and he is ready to rise to the challenge.
Dele Alake, the President’s Special Adviser on Special Tasks, Communications and Strategy, made this known to State House correspondents on Saturday following the visit of President Umaro Sissoco Embaló of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau to President Tinubu at his residence in Ikoyi, Lagos. .
Alake told reporters that although it was a private visit, President Embaló took the opportunity to express his solidarity and willingness to cooperate with Nigeria under President Tinubu’s leadership.
He also stressed that the visit enabled Embaló, who is currently the chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, to strengthen fraternal relations between the two countries.
“President Embalo praised President Tinubu’s laudable policy initiatives over the past month, adding that everyone in the international community has praised the Nigerian leader’s huge strides.”
“He came to express his solidarity and bond with a brother African head of state in the first instance, and in particular as a brother head of state in West Africa.”
“This is a most commendable sign of things to come across the West African region in terms of the atmosphere created by Nigeria’s giant strides over the past month, and the need for Nigeria to take its rightful place in African affairs .”
“Everyone looks up to Nigeria, especially in Africa and the ECOWAS region and President Tinubu is ready to take up the gauntlet,” he added.
In the entourage of the visiting Bissau-Guinean leader were his Special Adviser Caramo Camara, Califa Soares Chief of Staff and Diplomatic Adviser, Ambassador Alfredo Cabral, and Image Operator, Bonifacio Correia.
The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who had previously received the visiting President at the Presidential Wing of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, the Chief of Staff of the President, Femi Gbajabiamila and Dele Alake were also present during the visit.
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