President Bola Tinubu is back to Abuja after his to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, where he participated in the just concluded extraordinary Arab-Islamic summit.
The President who arrived the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, at about 8pm and was received on arrival by senior members of the administration, including the Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila.
Also on hand to receive him ministers of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, and National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje.
While at the Summit, Tinubu called for a decisive global action to end the ongoing violence in Gaza, urging world leaders to move beyond symbolic condemnations.
He called on parties in the conflict in the Middle East to respect the principles of proportionality and the basic rights of civilians, consistent with global legal and diplomatic frameworks.
“In a rules-based international order, States have the right of self-defence. But self defence must take proportionality into account, in line with global legal, diplomatic – and moral – frameworks.
“An entire civilian population, their dreams and futures, cannot be dismissed as collateral,” he said.
Meanwhile, on the sidelines of the Summit, President Tinubu held talks with Saudi Arabia’s Crown, Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
The President was accompanied on the trip by key officials, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar; the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu; Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris; and the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Mohammed Mohammed.