President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be jetting off from Abuja to Guinea-Bissau on Saturday to attend the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, in Bissau, capital of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau.
This was disclosed in a statement issued on Friday by the Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, Mr. Dele Alake
The summit, which is to take place on Sunday is expected to address memoranda on pressing sub-regional issues including Report of the 50th Ordinary Session of the Mediation and Security Council, MSC, covering security challenges faced by the member countries; Report of the 90th Ordinary Session of ECOWAS Council of Ministers on the financial situation of the body and the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFTA, as well as Report on the status of Transition in the Republics of Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea.
Also to be discussed includes Memoranda on the ECOWAS Single Currency Programme and the Report on Obstacles to Free Movement of Goods on the Abidjan- Lagos corridor.
To accompany the President will be some members of the Presidential Policy Advisory Council and other top government officials.
To this end, Tinubu is expected to be back in the country at the end of the meeting.