{"id":33360,"date":"2021-05-14T22:59:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T21:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=33360"},"modified":"2021-05-14T22:59:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T21:59:20","slug":"nigeria-offers-helping-hand-to-chad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=33360","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria offers helping hand to Chad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>COUNT ON US. WE\u2019LL LEND A HELPING HAND, PRESIDENT BUHARI ASSURES CHADIAN TRANSITIONAL LEADER\u00a0<br \/><br \/>Release<br \/><br \/><\/strong>By<strong> Femi Adesina<\/strong>, Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity)<br \/><br \/>Nigeria will assist the Republic of Chad to stabilize, and return to constitutional order, President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged.\u00a0<br \/><br \/>The President spoke Friday at State House, Abuja, while hosting Lt. Gen. Mahamat Idris Deby Itno, the President, Transitional Military Council of Chad.\u00a0<br \/><br \/>Marshal Idris Deby Itno, President of the country had died in battle last month, while leading troops to confront insurgents, who had come in through Libya. The country set up the transitional council, headed by the son of the deceased, and a return to democratic order is expected in 18 months.\u00a0<br \/><br \/>\u201cWe are bound together by culture and geography, and we will help in all ways we can,\u201d President Buhari told his visitor. \u201cNigerians know and appreciate the role Chad played in helping us to combat terrorism, and we will continue the collaboration.\u201d\u00a0<br \/><br \/>The Nigerian President said the late Marshal Itno \u201cwas a personal friend, and a friend of Nigeria, and Chad has been very steadfast in defending Nigeria,\u201d so the country should not hesitate to ask for help in areas it deemed necessary.\u00a0<br \/><br \/>President Buhari said Nigeria would help strengthen the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) and the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), adding; \u201cWe will also help you to ensure a smooth transition in 18 months, as you have promised your people.\u201d\u00a0<br \/><br \/>Lt. Gen. Itno thanked Nigeria for the solidarity shown after the passage of the former President, noting that the main objective of the Transitional Military Council \u201cis the security and cohesion of our country.\u201d\u00a0<br \/><br \/>He recommitted to democratic, free, fair polls in 18 months, telling President Buhari: \u201cYou were very close to Marshal Itno. I\u2019m here to reaffirm that relationship, and for you to support our transition. We rely on our brother country Nigeria, as we have shared history, culture and geography. We are ready to be guided by you in our journey to constitutional rule.\u201d<br \/><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COUNT ON US. WE\u2019LL LEND A HELPING HAND, PRESIDENT BUHARI ASSURES CHADIAN TRANSITIONAL LEADER\u00a0 Release By Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity) Nigeria will assist the Republic of Chad to stabilize, and return to constitutional order, President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged.\u00a0 The President spoke Friday at State House, Abuja, while hosting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":33361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2376,3309,249],"class_list":["post-33360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-chad","tag-help","tag-nigeria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33360","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=33360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}