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Tinubu returns home after attending Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration in Rome
President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday returned to the country after attending inauguration of Pope Leo XIV in Rome.
The president joined other world leaders at Saturday’s inauguration of the United States-born pontiff.
President Tinubu also met with the Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, and former Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi, at the event.
Pope Leo XIV, real name, Robert Prevost, was elected the 267th head of the Catholic Church on May 8.
President Tinubu was received at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Tuesday evening
by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike; the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume; and the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje.
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