Godswill Akpabio is among the
four senators of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who will accompany
President Muhammadu Buhari to China on Friday.
Nine ministers and four state
governors all elected on the platform of the APC are also among top government
officials that will be on the President’s entourage.
According to a statement by Garba
Shehu, presidential spokesman, the president would depart Abuja for China to
participate in the 7th summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation
scheduled to hold from September 3 to 4 in Beijing.
Shehu said Buhari’s first
engagement in Beijing would be an interactive session with the Nigerian
community in China.
Before the formal opening of the
FOCAC Summit, he said the president in his capacity as current chair of ECOWAS,
would deliver remarks at the high-level dialogue between Chinese and African
leaders, business representatives and African entrepreneurs.
He added that the Nigerian
president is scheduled to join President Jinping and other African leaders for
the opening and roundtable sessions of the 2018 FOCAC Beijing Summit with the
theme “Towards an even Stronger China-Africa Community with a Shared Future.
“After the FOCAC Summit,
President Buhari will hold bilateral meetings with President Xi Jinping and
Prime Minister Li Keqiang to discuss infrastructure financing for strategic
projects in Nigeria and the upgrading of Nigeria-China relations “from
strategic partnership to comprehensive strategic partnership,” the statement
read
“The President will also use the
occasion of his audience with the Chinese leadership to assess the progress
made so far in Chinese interventions in Nigeria’s key priority infrastructure
projects, particularly on-going projects in the railway and power sectors.
“It is noteworthy that since the
last FOCAC VI Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa in December 2015 – the first
attended by the Nigerian leader – and his successful State visit to China in
April 2016, the current administration has pushed forward practical cooperation
with China in the areas of infrastructure construction, trade, investments,
finance, power, agriculture, education cooperation, among others.”
Also on the president’s entourage
are the governors of Bauchi, Lagos, Jigawa and Imo states respectively.
Other senators on the entourage
are Abdullahi Adamu, George Akume and Aliyu Wamakko representing Nasarawa,
Benue, Akwa Ibom and Sokoto states respectively.
Also accompanying the president
are nine ministers Geoffrey Onyeama (foreign affairs), Rotimi (transportation),
Babatunde Fashola (power, works and housing), Muhammad Bello (FCT), Okechukwu
Enelamah )industry, trade and
investment), Udoma Udo Udoma, (budget and national planning), Suleiman Adamu
(water resources), Ibe Kachikwu (state, petroleum resources), and Hadi Sirika
(state for aviation).
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