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Ex-Nigerian President, Obasanjo has arrived in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
At the last meeting in December, President Buhari expressed satisfaction with establishing the Council, saying it will boost trade relations between both nations.
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has arrived in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for the meeting of the DRC/Nigeria Business Council scheduled to start tomorrow, in the country’s state capital.
The former President left Abeokuta, Ogun State capital enroute Lagos at the early hours of Wednesday, for the two-hour chartered flight to Kinshasa with the Executive Secretary, National Action Committee on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), and the former executive director/chief executive officer of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) between 2013 and 2022, Olusegun Awolowo.
According to his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi in a release, the Anambra State governor, Prof. Charles Soludo and Wale Adeosun, a business mogul/renowned industrialist in DRC Congo joined the former President on the trip.
On ground ahead of the summit were the President of the Council and former Director General of the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Dr. Nteranya Sanginga, Mr. Jimi Lawal and representative of Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, Dr. Debo Akande.
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