President Muhammadu Buhari will on Thursday leave Abuja for Istanbul, Turkey, to attend the third Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit, hosted by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday.
With the ‘‘Enhanced Partnership for Common Development and Prosperity’’, the submit’s aims to review the cooperation between African countries and Turkey since the last summit in 2014.
”The third Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit is coming on the heels of President Erdogan’s recent State Visit to Nigeria during which several agreements in the fields of energy, defence industry, mining and hydrocarbons were signed to expand existing bilateral ties” the statement said.
”The Turkish leader had, during the visit to Nigeria, affirmed his commitment to immediately expand the volume of trade between the two countries to five billion dollars and the Nigerian delegation will seize the opportunity of the gathering in Istanbul to enhance cooperation with other partners for more trade and investment opportunities in the country.
It is expected that the Summit would provide guidelines and direction for cooperation with African countries for the next five years.”
President Buhari, according to the statement, will be accompanied on the trip by his wife, Aisha, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama; Defence, Bashir Magashi; FCT, Mohammed Bello; Health, Osagie Ehanire; Agriculture, Mohammed Abubakar and Industry, Trade and Investment, Adeniyi Adebayo.
Others are, the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Amb. Ahmed Rufai.
