Jonathan Reveals Why His Visit To Presidential Villa Will Be More Regular
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Former Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday revealed that his will be having a more frequent visits to the Presidential Villa, Abuja in the coming days.
He spoke during his visit to the State House, disclosing that his will be meeting the Nigeria’s President more regularly because of the many challenges facing the West African subregion.
While addressing newsmen after meeting President Tinubu, Jonathan urged Nigerians should not be surprised about his visit.
The former President, who is the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Special Envoy, leading its mediation mission on Mali, was at the Villa to discuss developments on conflicts with President Tinubu in his capacity as the Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the regional body.
To that end, Jonathan said he will frequently have issues of ECOWAS regional concerns to discuss with the President, saying, “I’ve been a part of ECOWAS from 2020, as the ECOWAS Mediator in Mali and now that we’re lucky our President has been appointed as the Chairperson of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS, in fact, I will be coming here almost every week so Nigerians should not be surprised because we have a lot of challenges in the subregion and those were the things we were discussing.
“We have crisis in Mali, crisis in Guinea, crisis in Burkina Faso, I’m really handling Mali, but still oversighting others. So we came to put our heads together.
“I’m also the Chair of the ECOWAS Council of the Wise, we hold meetings and we see Chair of the Authority to have conversations on how to move things forward.
“So since he just came back from the AU programme in Nairobi and I’m traveling tomorrow, so I’ve decided to come and brief him to know how to move ahead with the ECOWAS challenges”, Jonathan said.
