President Buhari scheduled to travel next week
President Muhammadu Buhari is set to travel to the
United States on Tuesday to address the 72nd session of the United Nations General to address the 72nd session of the United
Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, September 19, 2017.
The President of Nigeria is listed as number seven on
the provincial list of speakers.
Buhari is expected to speak after the leaders of
Brazil, the United States, Guinea, Switzerland, Jordan and Slovakia.
Since his
return to Nigeria on August 20, 2017, after 103 days of medical leave in
London, Buhari has not attended any public event outside of Aso Villa and his
country home in Daura, Katsina State.
Also, he has attended only one Federal Executive
Council meeting since he returned three weeks ago.
Acting on the President’s instruction, Vice-President
Yemi Osinbajo recently visited flood-ravaged Benue State where thousands have
been displaced.
Osinbajo, while representing the President, has also
received members of the United States Congress as well as the United Kingdom
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and his team at the
Villa.
The Vice-President has also presided over every
economic meeting including the 15th Annual meeting of the Board of Governors of
ECOWAS Bank Investment and the National Industrial Council Meeting which had in
attendance Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, and many other captains of
industry.
However, the Senior Special Assistant to the President
on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, confirmed to our correspondent on the
telephone that Buhari would attend the UN General Assembly.
Shehu said, “I cannot tell you the time he will be
going because it can change but I know he is expected to be the eighth speaker
at the UN. So, he will be there and he will speak.”
Source: {Punch Newspaper}
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