President Bola Tinubu on Thursday evening returned to Abuja from Johannesburg, South Africa, after attending the inauguration ceremony of South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, for a second term of office.
Tinubu arrived in Abuja at about 5:30 pm.
PUNCH Online reported that Tinubu, on Tuesday, departed Lagos for Pretoria to attend the inauguration of the South African President, Ramaphosa.
Tinubu had departed Lagos, where he had been since last Friday for the Eid-el-Kabir festival, on Wednesday for President Ramaphosa’s inauguration ceremony.
The Nigerian leader departed the Presidential wing of the Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, on a Dassault Falcon 8X aircraft around 11:06 am.
The President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, had said in a statement that Tinubu would attend Ramaphosa’s inauguration following his re-election as President for a second term.
While in South Africa, besides witnessing the inauguration ceremony, President Tinubu also held a closed-door meeting with Ramaphosa when he (Ramaphosa) visited the Nigerian leader at his hotel.
The statement noted that both leaders identified the similarities in the challenges being faced by African countries and agreed on the need to work together to tackle those challenges.
The statement partly read, “I really enjoyed your speech at the ceremony. I was delighted listening to you. We have lots of issues in common, and we need to work more closely together. It was a good celebration.”
