ECOWAS Heads' session: Buhari assigns Pantami as President Ouattara arrive in Nigeria

ECOWAS Heads’ session: Buhari assigns Pantami as President Ouattara arrive in Nigeria

By : Editor

Date: 11 December 2021 6:04pm WAT

Former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo delivers a speech during a meeting with traditional chiefs and members of his party at his residence in Mama on June 28, 2021. - Gbagbo was able to return in his home town after having been definitively acquitted by the ICC on charges stemming from violence that claimed around 3,000 lives after he refused to concede electoral defeat in 2010 to current President Alassane Ouattara. (Photo by SIA KAMBOU / AFP)

Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami has welcomed Ivory Coast President, Alassane Ouattara to Nigeria.

Ouattara is attending the 60th extraordinary session of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Authority Heads of State in Abuja.

A statement by Pantami’s spokesman, Uwa Suleiman said Nigeria stands tall and proud to play host to regional leaders.

“It is with sense of duty that the Minister chaperones His Excellency, on behalf of the Federal Government, as assigned by President Muhammadu Buhari”, it read.

Pantami also congratulated Ouattara and the people of Ivory Coast on the historic building of its new Chancellery in Nigeria’s capital.

The Professor of Cybersecurity expressed confidence that this will strengthen diplomatic relations between the two countries and West Africa.

In discharging the national assignment as Ouattara’s official chaperone, Pantami will be supported by Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu.

Others are Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Communications, Bitrus Nabasu, and Director General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa.