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PRESIDENT BUHARI DEPARTS FOR IRAN 1A&B&2. President Muhammadu Buhari departs Abuja for the 3RD Gas Exporting Countries’ Forum (GECF) taking place in Tehran, Iran from Presidential Wings of the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja. PHOTO; SUNDAY AGHAEZE. NOV 22 2015.
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PRESIDENT BUHARI DEPARTS FOR IRAN 1A&B&2. President Muhammadu Buhari departs Abuja for the 3RD Gas Exporting Countries’ Forum (GECF) taking place in Tehran, Iran from Presidential Wings of the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja. PHOTO; SUNDAY AGHAEZE. NOV 22 2015.
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President Muhammadu Buhari departing Nigeria to Mali Thursday
President Muhammadu Buhari will Thursday depart for Bamako, Republic of Mali on a one-day visit, following the briefing by the ECOWAS Special Envoy to the country, former President Goodluck Jonathan.
A statement issued by presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina on Wednesday said the Nigerian President and some ECOWAS leaders led by the Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the sub-regional organisation, President Issoufou Mahamadou of Niger Republic, agreed to meet in Mali to engage in further consultations towards finding a political solution to the crisis in the country.
Host President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Presidents Machy Sall of Senegal, Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana and Alassane Ouattara of Cote d’Ivoire are expected to participate in the Bamako meeting.
Former President Goodluck Jonathan was at the State House in company of President of ECOWAS Commission, Mr Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, on Tuesday to brief President Buhari on the unfolding situation in Mali, necessitating the visit of ECOWAS leaders to consolidate on the agreements reached by various parties.
“We will ask the President of Niger, who is the Chairman of ECOWAS to brief us as a group, and we will then know the way forward,” Buhari had said.
He thanked Jonathan for his comprehensive brief on the situation in Mali, “which you had been abreast with since when you were the sitting Nigerian President.”
The former President had filled in Buhari on his activities as Special Envoy to restore amity to Mali, rocked by protests against President Keita, who has spent two out of the five years second term in office.
A resistance group, M5, is insisting that the Constitutional Court must be dissolved, and the President resign, before peace can return to the country.
Crisis had erupted after the court nullified results of 31 parliamentary seats in the polls held recently, awarding victory to some other contenders, which the resistance group said was at the instigation of President Keita.
Riots on July 10 had led to the killing of some protesters by security agents, causing the crisis to spiral out of control, hence the intervention by ECOWAS.
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