President Bola Tinubu is set to attend the inauguration of Senegal’s president-elect, Mr Bassirou Faye as president in Dakar on Tuesday at the invitation of the West African country.
His spokesman, Mr Ajuri Ngelale, stated on Monday in Abuja that the president would leave Abuja for Dakar on Tuesday.
Tinubu, Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Governments, will join other regional leaders at the event.
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He would be accompanied on the trip by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, and other senior government officials.
The president is expected to return to Nigeria after the conclusion of the inauguration, Ngelale stated.
Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye (born 25 March 1980), commonly known as Diomaye, is a Senegalese politician and former tax inspector who is the president-elect of Senegal. He is the general secretary of the banned party PASTEF and won the 2024 Senegalese presidential election in place of disqualified candidate Ousmane Sonko.
He went to primary school in his village and then undertook middle and high school in Mbour. In 2000, Faye earned his baccalaureate. He successfully attained a master’s degree in law at Dakar Cheikh Anta Diop University and subsequently cleared both competitive exams, enrolling at the National School of Administration of Senegal (ENA) and the magistracy in 2004.
After graduation, Faye opted to become a tax inspector in the Tax and Estates department, where he befriended Sonko, a fellow alum from the same school.
In 2014, Faye and Sonko’s relationship grew closer in the Taxes and Estates Union, created by Sonko, the leader of the newly founded PASTEF. During his time as the head of the union, Faye campaigned to facilitate homeownership for tax and property agents.
With additional reports by NAN
