President Kagame began a two-day working visit in Nigeria on Tuesday following his visit to Gabon where he met his counterpart Ali Bongo who is recovering from stroke.
As he arrived to Nigeria on 11th June 2019 one day before the inauguration of Buhari, President Kagame attended an International Anti-Corruption Summit where he delivered a talk on Rwanda’s anti-corruption efforts that made it the third least corrupt African country over the past two years.
The inaugurated President Buhari, 76, was re-elected in February 2019 for four-year tenure.
The inauguration was also attended by different African Heads of State and Governments including Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame; Mauritania President , Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz; the Chairperson of African Union Commission (AUC), Moussa Faki Mahamat; Liberia President, George Manneh Weah; Congo Brazaville President, Denis Sassou Nguesso; the President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo; Senegal President, Macky Sall; Adama Barrow of Gambia; Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger; José Mário Gómes Vaz of Guinea-Bissau; Patrice Talon of Bénin and Uganda’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Ruhakana Rugunda.
President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria took his oath of office for a second term on 29th May 2019.
At the time, the ceremony was celebrated ordinarily on the request of the president who wanted great celebrations for the inauguration to be held concurrently with Nigeria’s National Democracy Day celebrated on 12th June.
Buhari was announced winner of the election having secured 15,191,847 votes against main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar’s 11,262,978 votes.
VIDEO: President Kagame at the National Democracy Day in Nigeria. pic.twitter.com/idVpusrcCP
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