resident Bola Ahmed Tinubu has returned to Abuja after a one-day travel to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia for the just concluded extraordinary Arab-Islamic summit.
Tinubu, who arrived the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, touched down around 8pm.
He was received on arrival by senior members of the administration, including the Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila.
Others were Ministers including Nyesom Wike (Federal Capital Territory); Wale Edun (Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy).
The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, was also on hand to receive him.
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.
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, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar; the National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu; Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris; and the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Mohammed Mohammed.
