President Bola Tinubu arrived in Rome, Italy, on Saturday to
join other world leaders at the solemn mass marking the beginning of the
Pontificate of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, the 267th Bishop of Rome and the new
leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
The installation mass will take place on Sunday, May 18 at
the Vatican.
President Tinubu was received at the Mario De Bernardo
Military Airport by Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Minister of State for
Foreign Affairs, and officials from Vatican City and the Nigerian Embassy after
the plane touched down at 6 pm local time.
President Tinubu is in Rome to honour the new Pope’s
invitation, conveyed by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of
State.
The Papal invitation underscored the need for President
Tinubu’s physical presence “at this moment of particular importance for the
Catholic Church and the world afflicted by many tensions and conflicts.
“Your great nation is particularly dear to me as I worked in
the Apostolic Nunciature in Lagos during the 1980s,” Pope Leo XIV further said
in the invitation.
President Tinubu’s entourage includes the Archbishop of
Owerri and President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria, Archbishop
Lucius Ugorji, Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Abuja, and Alfred Martins of
Lagos.
Mathew Hassan Kukah, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese,
is also in the president’s entourage.
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