UN Secretary-General Gives President Buhari Important Assignment on West Africa
president, Muhammadu Buhari, has been asked to use his leadership position to ensure stability in West Africa. in terms of democracy and good governance.
According to a statement by Femi Adesina, spokesperson to the president, the UN secretary-general said this at a meeting with Buhari on Friday, at the 76th session of the United Nations general assembly (UNGA) taking place in New York. Antonio Guterres urged President Buhari to use his leadership position to ensure stability in West Africa.
“According to the UN scribe, Africa, especially West Africa, was generally seen as an ocean of stability and good governance, but was deeply concerned at recent reversal of fortunes in democratic rule in some parts of the West African sub-region with coups overturning elected institutions,”
Adesina said.