President Bola Tinubu would depart Abuja on Tuesday for Lagos to celebrate, along with other leaders, the 50th anniversary of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
This is in continuation of the ECOWAS golden jubilee flagged off in Accra last month.
The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, who disclosed this in a statement on Monday, said the Lagos events would include reenacting the 1975 declaration at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs in Victoria Island.
He also revealed that at the Eko Hotels and Suites event, President Tinubu, the Chairman of ECOWAS, would highlight the economic bloc’s milestones.
According to the statement, the Chairman of the NIIA and former Minister of External Affairs, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, would review the bloc’s 50-year journey, which panellists at the NIIA would later analyse.
The statement added that the only surviving Head of State who signed the ECOWAS declaration, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (Rtd), would participate in all the ceremonies and deliver a speech at the Eko Hotels.
It said Dr Omar Touray, President of the ECOWAS Commission, would deliver the welcome address.
The statement further disclosed that while in Lagos, President Tinubu would, on Saturday, May 31, commission some projects of the administration.
“Among them are Section I of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, Lekki Deep Sea Port Tax Credit Concrete Road, the flag-off of Section II of the Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway, and the 7th Axial Road.
“The President will virtually commission Kano-Kanwar-Danja-Hadejiya Section II Road and Yakasai-Zalli Road and flag off the Kano Northern By-pass, Zaria-Hunkuyi-Dabai Section I, Dabai-Kafur Malumfashi, and Malumfashi-Dayi-Yashe-Gidan Mutum Daya Section III,” the statement said.
It added that the President Tinubu would observe the Eid-el-Kabir prayers at the State House, Dodan Barracks, before returning to Abuja.
