Presidency gives details as Tiinubu is set to depart Abuja for Lagos

The Presidency has announced that President Bola Tinubu will be travelling from Abuja to Lagos State on Tuesday, May 27.

In a statement issued by Bayo Onanuga, the special adviser to the president on information and strategy, Tinubu will be in Lagos for the 50th anniversary of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

 The president will be attending the meeting alongside other leaders at the event which would also see to the reenacting of the 1975 declaration at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs in Victoria Island.

Also, the Chairman of the NIIA and former Minister of External Affairs, Bolaji Akinyemi, will review the bloc’s 50-year journey, which panellists at the NIIA will later analyse.

Onanuga said, “While in Lagos, President Tinubu will, on Saturday, May 31, commission some projects of the administration.

”Among them are Section I of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, Lekki Deep Sea Port Tax Credit Concrete Road, the flag-off of Section II of the Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway, and the 7th Axial Road,” he said.

Also, President Tinubu will commission the

Kano-Kanwar-Danja-Hadejiya Section II Road and Yakasai-Zalli Road and flag off the Kano Northern By-pass, Zaria-Hunkuyi-Dabai Section I, Dabai-Kafur Malumfashi, and Malumfashi-Dayi-Yashe-Gidan Mutum Daya Section III.

This particular project commissioning by the President would take place virtually.

In addition, Onanuga said before returning to the Federal Capital Territory, the President will observe the Eid-el-Kabir prayers at the State House, Dodan Barracks, before returning to Abuja.