{"id":23631,"date":"2020-01-05T21:40:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T20:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=23631"},"modified":"2020-01-05T21:40:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T20:40:18","slug":"at-meeting-with-president-elect-of-guinea-bissau-buhari-stresses-need-for-west-africas-stability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=23631","title":{"rendered":"At meeting with President-elect of Guinea-Bissau, Buhari stresses need for West Africa&#8217;s stability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Garba Shehu<\/strong>, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media &amp; Publicity)<br \/>\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday reiterated his desire for stability, peace, progress and prosperity in the entire West African sub-region.<br \/>\nResponding to Umaro Muhktar Sissoco Embalo, the President-elect of Guinea Bissau, who came to Nigeria on a \u201cthank you visit\u201d and to express his &#8220;good wishes&#8221; following his emergence as winner in the keenly contested, just-concluded elections in his country, President Buhari said, \u201cWithout stability, there can be no development. We will do whatever it will take to stabilize the sub-region.\u201d<br \/>\nPresident Buhari commended the out-going President, Jos\u00e9 M\u00e1rio Vaz, himself a candidate in the elections for supporting the emergence of Embalo in the second round of balloting \u201cin the interest of peace and stability.\u201d<br \/>\nHe said history will remember President Mario Vaz for putting National interest above his own, emphasizing that he cared for peace within the region.<br \/>\nThe Nigerian President expressed his desire for both countries to work together for the betterment of their peoples and reiterated his vision for peace, progress and prosperity in West Africa.<br \/>\nPresident-elect Embalo, a businessman-turned politician, was Prime Minister of Guinea Bissau under incumbent President Jose Mario Vaz between 2016 and 2018. He was a member of the ruling African Party of Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) when he founded the Movement for Democratic Alternative (MADEM-G15) on which platform he won the elections.<br \/>\nHe praised President Buhari for his support leading to his emergence as winner in the elections and expressed his appreciation for the warm and friendly disposition of Nigeria towards him and the people of his country.<br \/>\nHe informed the Nigerian leader of his selection as the Guest of Honour at the Presidential inauguration coming up next month and for which he received assurances from President Buhari that he will make the best efforts to be present.<br \/>\nJanuary 5, 2020<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media &amp; Publicity) President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday reiterated his desire for stability, peace, progress and prosperity in the entire West African sub-region. Responding to Umaro Muhktar Sissoco Embalo, the President-elect of Guinea Bissau, who came to Nigeria on a \u201cthank you visit\u201d and to express [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[31,681],"class_list":["post-23631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-buhari","tag-embalo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}