President Buhari is scheduled to travel to Saudi Arabia for an economic summit on Monday, October 28 after which he will be headed off to London on Saturday November 2, 2019.
The special adviser to the president on media and publicity Femi Adesina, made this known in a statement released on Monday, October 28.
According to the statement, the president will be leaving Nigeria today, October 28, for the economic forum in Saudi Arabia.
President Buhari is scheduled to meet with King Salman and King Abdullah ll of Jordan during the trip. The Nigerian president will on Wednesday, October 30, participate in an Africa-themed event alongside his counterparts from other African countries. President Buhari will thereafter travel to the UK on a private visit on Saturday, November 2, and return to Nigeria on Thursday, November 17.
Recall that the president had just returned from Russia where he attended a three-day Russia-Africa summit in Sochi. The summit was held between October 23 and October 25,2019 and the summit focused on exploring and expanding opportunities in security, trade and investment, science and technology, as well as gas production. Buhari was accompanied in the trip by Governors Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe, Bello Matawalle of Zamfara and Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti.
