Tinubu Heads To Lagos Tuesday For ECOWAS 50th Anniversary

President Bola Tinubu will leave Abuja on Tuesday for Lagos to celebrate, along with other leaders, the 50th anniversary of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

Presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, in a statement said the Lagos events will include reenacting the 1975 declaration at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs in Victoria Island.

The ECOWAS golden jubilee was flagged off in Accra last month.

At the event holding at the Eko Hotels and Suites, President Tinubu who is the Chairman of ECOWAS is expected to highlight the economic bloc’s milestones.

Chairman of the NIIA and former Minister of External Affairs, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, will review the bloc’s 50-year journey, which panelists at the NIIA event will later analyse.

The only surviving Head of State who signed the ECOWAS declaration, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (Rtd), is also expected to participate in all the ceremonies and deliver a speech at the Eko Hotels.

President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Omar Touray, will deliver the welcome address at the event.

While in Lagos, Tinubu will on Saturday, May 31, commission some projects executed by 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 also virtually commission the 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.

Tinubu will observe the Eid-el-Kabir prayers at the State House, Dodan Barracks in Lagos before returning to Abuja.