Buhari Receives Ghanaian President, Akufo-Addo
President Muhammadu Buhari and his Ghanaian counterpart, Nana Akufo-Addo, met on Sunday night in Aso Rock, Abuja.
Bashir Ahmad, the President’s Personal Assistant on New Media, confirmed this on his Twitter handle.
Though details of the meeting are still sketchy, it is believed issues around shops belonging to Nigerian residents in Ghana being shut will feature in the discussions.
Relationship between the two countries had centered around the issue recently, prompting the visit of th Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to Ghana.
The closure of shops owned by Nigerian traders in Ghana had heightened tensions between the two countries, a situation which led the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama to summon Ghana’s Charge d Affaires to Nigeria, Ms Iva Denoo for discussions.
Onyeama had also met with representatives of Nigerian traders in Ghana, led by Jasper Emenike, the National President of Progressive Ambassadors of Nigeria (PAN), and the organisation’s National Director, Ruth Ango over the matter.
The Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, had also visited Ghana on Sept. 2 with a view to seeing how the issues at stake could be resolved amicably.
According to the speaker, the closure of the Nigerian shops in Ghana contravenes the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) protocol on free movement of citizens of member states, and trade liberalisation scheme.
