SAN FRANCISCO, March 05, (THEWILL) – President Muhammadu Buhari is currently meeting behind closed door with the Liberian President, George Weah.
The meeting is holding inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Weah’s motorcade arrived the forecourt of the President’s office at about 12:30 p.m and he was received by Buhari and some other top government officials.
Monday’s visit is the first by Weah to Nigeria since he was elected President. He was sworn in as president on January 22 after defeating immediate past Vice President Joseph Boakai of the Unity Party.
THEWILL recalls that he ran under the platform of Coalition for Democratic Change and won the first round of election with 38.4 per cent forcing a run off.
In the second round of the election, Mr. Weah was elected President of Liberia with more than 60 per cent of the votes and was said to have been supported by Incumbent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
His swearing-in in January marked Liberia’s first democratic transition in over 70 years.
Prior to his swearing in, he was the senator for Montserrado county in Liberia, having been elected in 2014.
