President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Special Duties,
Communications and Strategy, Dele Alake, on Saturday in Lagos, said President
Bola Tinubu is ready to provide leadership on the local and foreign scenes.
Alake said the rest of Africa looks up to Nigeria for
leadership.
“Everybody is looking up to Nigeria, especially in Africa
and the ECOWAS region and President Tinubu is ready to take up the gauntlet,”
Alake told State House correspondents when President Umaro Embaló of Guinea
Bissau visited President Tinubu at his Ikoyi residence in Lagos.
The Director of Information, State House, Abiodun
Oladunjoye, revealed this in a statement he signed on Saturday titled ‘African
Issues: President Tinubu ready to take up gauntlet, says Dele Alake.’
Alake said Tinubu recognises that other African nations are
taking cues from Nigeria in terms of leadership. Therefore, he is prepared to
step up to the challenge of providing a befitting example.
He noted that although both men met privately, President
Embaló used the opportunity to express his solidarity and willingness to
cooperate with Nigeria under the leadership of Tinubu.
Saturday’s visit also allowed Embaló, who is currently the
Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, to reinforce
the fraternal relations between the two countries, Alake revealed.
“President Embalo commended the laudable policy initiatives
of President Tinubu in the last one month and added that everyone in the
international community has been commending the giant strides of the Nigerian
leader.
“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,” said
the Presidential spokesman.
Alake described the engagement as a “commendable sign of
things to come in the entire West African region”.
He said the show of support stems from President Tinubu’s
“giant steps in the last one month” which, he said, has created a suitable
atmosphere and need for Nigeria to take its rightful place in African affairs.
“Everybody is looking up to Nigeria, especially in Africa
and the ECOWAS region and President Tinubu is ready to take up the gauntlet,”
Alake added.
On the entourage of the visiting Bissau Guinean leader were
his Special Adviser Caramo Camara; Chief of Staff, Califa Soares; Diplomatic
Advisor, Alfredo Cabral and Image Operator, Bonifacio Correia.
Those who joined President Tinubu to receive the
Guinea-Bissau President included Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu; Chief
of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila and Special Adviser, Special Duties, Communications
and Strategy to the President; Mr. Dele Alake.
President Embaló was earlier received at the Presidential
Wing of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, by Governor Sanwo-Olu.T
The visit is part of President Tinubu’s engagements since
arriving in Nigeria from his one-week trips to Paris and London last Tuesday.
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