President Muhammadu Buhari, Sunday, arrived the Joint Base Andrews Airport, Washington DC, to begin his four-day official visit to the United States. With him is an official entourage of 33, including his son, Yusuf Buhari.
On the President’s entourage are Governors Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, Nasarawa; Adams Oshiomhole, Edo; Kashim Shettima, Borno; and Godwin Emefiele, CBN.
Others are Abiola Ajimobi, Rotimi Amaechi, Senator Hadi Sirika, Ambassador Paul Bulus Z, Ambassador Ayodele Oke, Alhaji Aliyu Ismaila, Ambassador A. A. Musa, Ambassador. G. B. Igali, Aliyu Yahaya Gusau, Dr. Mahmud Mohammed, Pastor Tunde Bakare, Ismaila Isa Funtua, Mr. Femi Adesina and Dr. Sanusi Rafindadi.
The rest are Malam Garba, Mohammed Sarki, Kalu Abba-Snr, Ambassador Lawal A. Kazaure, Air Commodore N. B. Bali, Nura Rimi, Bashir Abubakar, Lt. Col. M. Lawal Abubakar, Abdulkarim Dauda, Yau Abdullahi, Sabiu Yusuf, Yusuf Maiyaki, Adamu Sambo, Emmanuel Anrihi, Bayo Omoboriowo, Baba Ujah, Lawal Mato (Snr), Gbenga Folagbade and Shehu Lawal Abubakar.
He was welcomed at the White House with a breakfast meeting of five at the Naval Observatory, the official residence of the US Vice President, Senator Joe Biden.
Apart from issues of common interest to Nigeria and the US such as security and trade, one of the high points of the visit is Buhari’s expected lecture at the United States Institute of Peace, USIP, Thursday.
The lecture, which would have been held last February at the peak of the March 28 presidential campaigns, will offer Buhari an opportunity to highlight his policy direction and expectations to a large audience of US policy makers, academics, business leaders, and Nigerians in the Diaspora.
Among other engagements, President Buhari will hold talks with Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate of the World Health Organisation, WHO, on economic assistance programme for the North-East and other important stakeholders on Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, a bilateral meeting with Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, US Trade Representative, Michael Froman.
The President will also hold talks on corruption with Loretta Lynch, US Attorney General; talks on strengthening the Nigerian economy with Jack Lew, US Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of the Central Bank, Godwin Emefiele, Permanent Secretary, MFA and Director General of the Budget as part of his team.
Apart from receiving in audience the US Black Caucus in the House of Representatives, Buhari will be at the Capitol Hill, the equivalent of the National Assembly, holding sessions with the Senate and House committees on Foreign Affairs, with lunch hosted by US Secretary of State, John Kerry.
After his meeting with the US Director of the CIA, President Buhari will host his colleagues of the Class of 1980 of the US Army War College at the Nigerian Embassy and later meet with a group of potential investors in the agricultural sector, among others.
And this encourages have aids numbering up to 5 each, and we want to save cost and an empty treasury.
ReplyDeleteWhere are these Aides, Who will pay for the stay of the aides, you sound like a wailing wailer!!!
DeleteBut your dummy brother Jonathan always travel with about 300 delegates. Shut up your funking mouth Omo Igbo. You are a rebel in Nigeria.
DeleteJust imagine how Nigeria money. What is Buhari's son there? What will the other thirty-two be doing? It means they are on jamboree! Given Buhari's lack of the requisite requirements in education, who will deliver all these lectures for him?
DeleteHe has gone to discus National development, areas of collaboration, cooperation and interest, Economy, corruption and sanitization of the system and also most importantly too security (Boko H) so in all our national life that is why he has gone with everyone who has got to learn one or two things as to improve a sector he or she represents, that is the standard anywhere in the world, please don't curse he or she may not have known; in here is considered a community on its own and people that contributes needs to see themselves as decent enough to belong to this group....Long live Nigeria! Long live PMB!! thank you Nigerianeye
DeleteWhen you read irrational and stupid comments about PMB and attacks on his strive to take Nigeria back on course, it is almost always certain that those comments will come from the Igbo people. They do not have an iota of interest in Nigeria and who is working assiduously to take us out of the current mess we have been put into by their benefactor GEJ. What interest them is how to split us and create Banana Republic or is it Biafra? and a common PHD (Pull Him Down) syndrom developed against PMB.
DeleteYou guys should always remember that some Nigerians can't tell good from bad hence foolishly and stupidly they still voted for PDP because they believed thieving is not corruption.So don't be surprised if they can't understand what bilateral relations with US meant.By what they say or write here you can tell their mental capacity and capability
ReplyDeleteNo rochas in the list?
ReplyDeleteAre you blind didnt you see Rochas in the picture?...Oh my mistake... yes you and your ilk are blind.You people only believe in the lies you read and what you have seen. If not why did you guys put all your eggs in one basket at the last election.
DeleteThe composition of the entorage is too lopsided in favour of the north. Niger Delta is the least represented, if any. Will that mean that we do not have egg heads at all to represent our common interest or at least demonstrate some level of partnership in the Nigerian project? I am beginning to be uncomfortable with Buhari's policy direction with respect to ethnic equality. The crying eyes also see!
ReplyDeleteSo PMB should take Wike or Tompolo/Asari along with him?
DeleteHaha haha. I like u man. Good reply to that Safari fool
DeleteYes, I agree with Safari, the northerners are the least educated sector in Nigeria, but unfortunately they get appointed to every important post available in Nigeria. The lopsidedness is very obvious in this list. Haba you either have to be a northerners or a Muslim to be relevant. I beg where is the equality of ethnic representation
ReplyDeleteBut they are the majority. Majority is in charge. No way for minority any more.
DeleteIf a northern cum Muslim will transform our decayed system, they should go ahead. We need to move above sentiments nd be objective in our criticisms. They past tenure that was filled with southerners, where did it get us to?
ReplyDeleteU guys shouldn't be saying all these.every body is very important.d fact that d north is in power doesn't make them more important than any part of this nation
ReplyDeleteBu h promised to give us somting different, let's watch..Gej did his best.he was never d problem of dis nation.he inherited all d challengies
He remain our hero.it doesn't matter whether any one believe or like him.he did well.BHari promised two weeks to take care of Bkhrm.this is 2mons.we r watching.we are praying for him which is why we should nt cririsize