Buhari, Gambian President meet in Abuja

By : NAN

Date: 16 January 2018 1:51pm WAT

The Gambia's President Adama Barrow arrives to speaks at his first press conference in The Gambia, as the country's newly elected leader, on January 28, 2017 in Banjul. West African nations plan to scale back a military force that secured the return to The Gambia of new President Adama Barrow to take power, the force commander said January 27. The mission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regional bloc will see "a progressive reduction" in numbers, Senegalese General Francois Ndiaye said in a statement a day after the newly elected leader flew back to his homeland. CARL DE SOUZA / AFP

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja met behind closed doors with visiting Gambia’s President Adama Barrow at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Barrow, who is visiting Nigeria for the first time since his inauguration as Gambian President on Jan. 19, 2017 arrived the presidential villa at about 11.50a.m.

The President would be host Barrow to a lunch after bilateral discussions.

The 51-year-old Gambian president ended the rule of the longtime leader of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, who is currently on exile in Equatorial Guinea.