By Ayodele Oni
The golden jubilee celebration of the Economic Community of West African States, (ECOWAS) continues in Lagos on Tuesday with the commission’s chairman, President Bola Tinubu presiding.
Already President Tinubu is expected to leave Abuja on Tuesday for Lagos to join other leaders, for the 50th anniversary of ECOWAS.
The ECOWAS golden jubilee was flagged off in Accra last month.
Special adviser to the president on media and strategy, Bayo Onanuga, in a statement on Monday, stated that the Lagos events will include reenacting the 1975 declaration at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs in Victoria Island.
“At the Eko Hotels and Suites event, President Tinubu, the Chairman of ECOWAS, will highlight the economic bloc’s milestones.
“The Chairman of the NIIA and former Minister of External Affairs, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, will review the bloc’s 50-year journey, which panellists at the NIIA will later analyse.
“The only surviving Head of State, who signed the ECOWAS declaration, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (Rtd), will participate in all the ceremonies and deliver a speech at the Eko Hotels.
“Dr Omar Touray, President of the ECOWAS Commission, will deliver the welcome address.
“While in Lagos, President Tinubu will, on Saturday, May 31, commission some projects of the administration.
“Among them are Section I of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, Lekki Deep Sea Port Tax Credit Concrete Road, the flag-off of Section II of the Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway, and the 7th Axial Road.
“The President will virtually commission Kano-Kanwar-Danja-Hadejiya Section II Road and Yakasai-Zalli Road and flag off the Kano Northern By-pass, Zaria-Hunkuyi-Dabai Section I, Dabai-Kafur Malumfashi, and Malumfashi-Dayi-Yashe-Gidan Mutum Daya Section III.
“President Tinubu will observe the Eid-el-Kabir prayers at the State House, Dodan Barracks, before returning to Abuja.”
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