President Bola Tinubu is prepared to step up to the challenge of providing leadership as Nigeria garners global attention, according to his Special Adviser on Special Duties, Communications, and Strategy, Mr. Dele Alake.
Following a private visit by President Umaro Sissoco Embaló of the Republic of Guinea Bissau to President Tinubu at his residence in Ikoyi, Lagos, Alake addressed journalists to shed light on the purpose of the visit.
Although the meeting was private, Alake revealed that President Embaló utilized the opportunity to express his solidarity and eagerness to collaborate with Nigeria under President Tinubu’s guidance.
Alake stated, “Everybody is looking up to Nigeria, especially in Africa and the ECOWAS region, and President Tinubu is ready to take up the gauntlet.” He further emphasized that the visit served to strengthen the fraternal relations between the two countries and allowed President Embaló, who currently chairs the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, to commend President Tinubu’s commendable policy initiatives in recent months.
“President Embaló commended the laudable policy initiatives of President Tinubu in the last month and added that everyone in the international community has been commending the giant strides of the Nigerian leader,” Alake remarked.
He went on to say, “He came to pay 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 very commendable sign of things to come in the entire West African region in terms of the atmosphere being generated by Nigeria’s giant steps in the last one month and the need for Nigeria to take its rightful place in African affairs.”
President Embaló was accompanied by his Special Adviser, Caramo Camara; Chief of Staff, Califa Soares; Diplomatic Advisor, Ambassador Alfredo Cabral; and Image Operator, Bonifacio Correia.
Also present during the visit were Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who had earlier welcomed the visiting President at the Presidential Wing of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, and the Chief of Staff to the President, Hon Femi Gbajabiamila.
