President Bola Tinubu will be attending the the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States [ECOWAS].
He will depart Abuja on Saturday, July 8, for Bissau, capital of Guinea-Bissau where the session will hold, the presidency disclosed.
The President’s Special Adviser on Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, Dele Alake, made the disclosure in a statement he signed on Friday evening, titled ‘President Tinubu to attend ECOWAS summit in Guinea-Bissau.’
At the summit on Sunday, July 9, participants are expected to address memoranda on five pressing sub-regional issues.
They include “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 ECOWAS Council of Ministers on the financial situation of the body and the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area, as well as Report on the status of Transition in the Republics of Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea,” Alake revealed.
Other items slated for discussion include; 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 the President is visiting since assuming office on May 29, 2023.
Some members of the Presidential Policy Advisory Council and other top government officials will accompany him.
The Nigerian leader is expected back in the country at the end of the meeting
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