Buhari attends ECOWAS summit in Ghana
President Muhammadu Buhari on Satuday left the country’s capital, Abuja, for Accra, Ghana.
The Nigerian leader has journeyed to Accra, to attend an Extraordinary Summit of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government.
The summit of the regional organization is centered on the political situation in Mali and other parts of the sub-region.
The presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina, has via a statement revealed that the president was accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, the Director-General, National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador Ahmed Rufa’i Abubakar and National Security Adviser, Maj-Gen Babagana Monguno (retd).
He said that the summit, to be held at the Presidential Palace, Accra, Jubilee House, is aimed at reviewing the progress made so far by the military junta in Mali, to return the country back to a democracy.
Adesina also said the meeting would be an avenue for the heads of state to review the situation of governance in Burkina Faso and Guinea.
The presidential spokesman revealed that the Nigerian leader would return to the country’s capital, Abuja, immediately after the summit.
