The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) on Saturday evening hosted leaders of the Economic Community of West African States to a pre-conference dinner at the Presidential Villa, ahead of the 60th Session of the bloc.
Personal Assistant to the President on Photography, Mr Sunday Aghaeze, confirmed this through pictorial reports of the event.
Those in attendance included the President of Ghana and Chairman of ECOWAS Authority, Nana Akufo-Addo; President of Togo, Faure Gnassingbe and President Mohamed Bazoum of Niger Republic.
Others were President Macky Sall of Senegal; President Umaro Sissoco Embaló of Guinea Bissau; President Julius Bio of Sierra Leone; and President Jose Maria Neves of Cape Verde.
Presidents Adama Barrow of the Gambia and Alassane Ouattara of Cote D’ Ivoire also attended the dinner.
The News Agency of Nigeria gathered that a new Chairman of ECOWAS Authority may emerge at the end of Sunday’s Sixtieth Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS.
