Barely a day after he returned from Egypt, President Muhammadu Buhari is set to jet off to Suadi Arabia and Qatar on Monday, February 22, 2016.
A statement issued by presidential spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina on Sunday, February 21, 2016 disclosed that Buhari is embarking on the one-week long trip to discuss how to stabilize the dwindling oil prices.
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The president will be accompanied to the journey by a high-powered Federal Government delegation, including the Minister of State (Petroleum) and Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC), Dr. Ibe Kachikwu.
Buhari would fly to Riyadyh, the Saudi Arabia capital on Tuesday, February 23, 2016 to meet talks with King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and senior officials of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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The statement read in part: “Ongoing efforts by Nigeria and other members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to achieve greater stability in the price of crude oil exports are expected to be high on the agenda of discussions between President Buhari and the Saudi Monarch.
“Crude oil prices and market stability will also be on the front burner when President Buhari goes on to Doha on Saturday for talks on Sunday with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.”
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The President is also scheduled to meet with leading Saudi and Qatari businessmen in Riyadh and Doha. It is also expected that the meeting with the businessmen would eventually lead to investments in Nigeria’s mining, agriculture, power supply, infrastructure, transportation, communications and other sectors consequent upon an invitation president Buhari would extend to them.
Buhari would also hold meetings with heads of international financial organisations and multilateral associations in Saudi Arabia even as he will also visit Medina and Mecca to pray for greater peace, prosperity and progress in Nigeria before going on to Doha.
Nigerians recently took to Twitter microblogging site to express disgust over the President’s too many foreign trios which according to many are yet to yield positive results.
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A viral list disclosed that the president have visited over 25 countries in his nine months of office as the country’s president.
