Buhari donates cash, bikes, vehicles for Guinea Bissau elections

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved support to Guinea Bissau’s election process including 350 units of electoral kits, 10 motorcycles, five Hilux vans, two light trucks and Five hundred thousand US Dollars ($500,000).

The approval was in response to an urgent request for assistance by the Government of Guinea Bissau.

According to Garba Shehu Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media & Publicity) the assistance is to ensure that legislative elections held in Guinea Bissau, which he said, should help in stabilizing the country.

Also, in his capacity as Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State, President Buhari on Friday, directed the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama to undertake an urgent mission as his Special Envoy to Guinea Bissau, in the company of ECOWAS Commission President, Jean-Claude Brou.

In a separate development, Nigeria’s Foreign Minister will also undertake a mission to Cotonou, Benin, to deliver a personal message to President Patrice Talon from President Buhari.

The visit is in the context of the brewing political crisis ahead of April 28, 2019, legislative elections in the country.

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