Hours after the Vice President, Prof. Femi Osinbajo, inspected the troubled Apapa zone in Lagos, he has arrived in the US for a four-day visit.
He was in Lagos on Saturday to inspect the trailer evacuation project in Apapa, home of the nation’s busiest port, where his official vehicles had to swim in the muddy flood that has seized parts of the notorious Apapa road.
In a way that, however, shows that he is going to be as swift-footed as he was during first tenure of the Bhari administration, he has arrived the New York for some two official programmes.
Osinbajo and members of his entourage arrived the Sheltair wing of the John F. Kennedy International Aiport at 12.38 a.m. local time (5:38 a.m.) and was received by the Nigerian Ambassador to the U.S., retired Justice Sylvanus Nsofor.
Other Nigerian officials of the country’s missions with Nsofor included Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Amb. Tijani Mohammad-Bande; and the Consul-General of Nigeria in New York, Mr Ben Okoyen.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the vice president is scheduled to meet with his U.S. counterrpat, Mike Pence, in Washington on Wednesday.
Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, said in a statement on Saturday that both leaders would be discuss matters of mutual interests between Nigeria and the U.S.
Ahead of his meeting with Pence, Osinbajo would be the guest speaker at a forum tagged “A Conversation With Vice President Yemi Osinbajo: Nigeria’s Economic Prospects.”
The event would be hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an independent and nonpartisan think tank established to help Americans better understand the world.
The vice president is expected to speak on Nigeria’s economic recovery, investment and growth opportunities, and the recent general elections.
