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Buhari hosts ECOWAS leaders to dinner ahead of 60th session

There are reports a new Chairman of ECOWAS Authority may emerge at the end of today’s 60th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS.

• December 12, 2021
President Muhammadu Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday evening hosted leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to a dinner ahead of the 60th Session of the bloc.

Sunday Aghaeze, Personal Assistant to the President (Photography) confirmed this in pictorial reports of the event.

Those who attended the dinner included President of Ghana and Chairman of ECOWAS Authority, Nana Akufo-Addo; President of Togo, Faure Gnassingbe; and President Mohamed Bazoum of Niger Republic.

Others were President Macky Sall of Senegal; President Umaro Sissoco Embaló of Guinea Bissau; President Julius Bio of Sierra Leone; and President Jose Maria Neves of Cape Verde.

Also were Presidents Adama Barrow of the Gambia and Alassane Ouattara of Cote D’ Ivoire.

There are reports a new Chairman of ECOWAS Authority may emerge at the end of the Sunday’s 60th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS.

(NAN)

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