President Muhammadu Buhari will travel to Istanbul, Turkey to attend the third Turkey-Africa partnership summit.
The summit which is themed, "Enhanced Partnership for Common Development and Prosperity’’, will be hosted by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the Republic of Turkey. The agenda of the summit is to review the cooperation between African countries and Turkey since the last summit in 2014.
This was made known by senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Garba Shehu, stating that the third Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit is coming on the heels of President Erdogan’s recent State Visit to Nigeria during which several agreements in the fields of energy, defence industry, mining and hydrocarbons were signed to expand existing bilateral ties.
During the visit of President Erdogan, he affirmed his commitment to immediately expand the volume of trade between the two countries to 5 billion dollars and the Nigerian delegation will seize the opportunity of the gathering in Istanbul to enhance cooperation with other partners for more trade and investment opportunities in the country.
Shehu noted that the summit is expected to provide guidelines and direction for cooperation with African countries for the next five years.
President Buhari will be accompanied on the trip by his wife, Aisha Buhari; the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama; Defence, Maj-Gen. Bashir Magashi (Rtd); FCT, Mohammed Bello; Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire; Agriculture, Mohammed Abubakar; Industry, Trade and Investment, Adeniyi Adebayo; the National Security Adviser, Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno (Rtd); and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ahmed Rufai Abubakar.
He is expected to be back in Abuja on Sunday, December 19, 2021.
Source: www.clintonsdaily.com
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