After a bilateral engagement on the sidelines of the Africa CEO Forum in Kigali on Thursday, President Bola Tinubu has invited his Guinean counterpart, Mamadi Doumbouya, for a state visit to Nigeria.
Presidential spokesperson Sunday Dare who announced this, said Doumbouya had accepted the invitation warmly and would visit Abuja.
Dare said “the President had a fruitful meeting, and you know Guinea is in debt to our president; he got some very good advice.
“Very soon, on the invitation of President Tinubu, he is likely to visit Nigeria,” Dare said.
He said both leaders also discussed potential partnership in Guinea’s vast mineral and metals sector.
Dare said the meeting discussed strategic possibilities for Nigeria-Guinea economic cooperation, with Guinea’s considerable natural resource wealth in metals, minerals and associated infrastructure opportunities presenting an area of mutual interest.
He said, “Guinea has a lot of potential, metals, minerals, and so on.
“The opening for partnership between Nigeria and Guinea has been opened.
“The possibilities are great, and I’m sure we will see that develop in the days and years ahead,” he said.
Doumbouya, who won Guinea’s recent presidential election with 86.2 per cent of the vote, is presiding over his country’s transition to civilian democratic rule with parliamentary elections fixed for the next two weeks.
Guinea is among Africa’s most mineral-rich countries, holding the world’s largest reserves of bauxite, the principal ore used in aluminium production, as well as significant deposits of iron ore, gold and diamonds.
