President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Chinese President Xi Jinping on the 100th anniversary of founding the Communist Party of China, seeking its partnership with APC.

In a letter to the Chinese leader, according to a statement by Mr Buhari’s media aide Femi Adesina, the president said China succeeded in building a “moderately prosperous society” and is on the way to building a “modern socialist country.”

Mr Buhari also affirmed that relations between the two nations “have witnessed an increasingly enhanced political trust, closer mutually beneficial economic and trade relations and cumulatively dynamic people to people exchange between Nigeria and China.”

The letter stated, “On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), I would like to extend warmest congratulations to Your Excellency on behalf of the government and people of Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

It added, “We highly commend the resolute response and remarkable success made by China against the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as its contribution to the world, and Africa in particular, by sharing experience, knowledge and medical relief materials.

“The past 50 years have witnessed an increasingly enhanced political trust, closer mutually beneficial economic and trade relations and cumulatively dynamic people to people exchange between Nigeria and China.’’

The president expressed the readiness of Nigeria to continue to work with China, to enhance bilateral relations, to deepen cooperation in all pragmatic sectors, as well as “to promote exchanges between the two ruling parties (APC and CPC), so as to lift the Nigeria-China strategic partnership to a higher level.”