G7 Meeting : Stop Playing Politics, Buhari Was Not Snubbed – Presidency Tells Moghalu

  • Some world leaders were cited at the G7 meeting.
  • Presidency says Buhari’s absence is not a snub.

The Presidency has reacted to a comment made by former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank, Kingsley Moghalu on the absence of President  Muhammadu Buhari from the G7 Meeting.

Moghalu, an economist who contested for presidency in the last general election took to his Twitter to describe the president’s absence as a snub.

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“It’s sad that @NGRPresident of Africa’s supposedly largest economy wasn’t invited to the G7 summit in France but @PaulKagame of Rwanda and @CyrilRamaphosa of South Africa were. Our country should be at the table, not on the menu! Obasanjo, like him or not, was at the table,” he tweeted.

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Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity replied the economist through his social media page saying the president’s absence at the meeting didn’t diminish Nigeria’s status as the biggest economy in the continent.

President Buhari is still in Japan for the Seventh Tokyo International Conference for African Development (TICAD7), in Yokohama.

“Kingsley Moghalu is either ignorant or playing petty politics. The non-invitation of President Buhari to witness the G7 meeting this year is not a snub.

“Neither does it diminish the status of Nigeria as the biggest economy on the continent. It seems no one clarified to the one-time Presidential Candidate how the G7 secretariat works. If they invite a country with an economy the size of Niger State, not Kano’s, not even Lagos’s does it call for Dr. Moghalu’s lamentation? Today, as we see it, they call this country, tomorrow they decide to have another. It’s entirely up to them.”

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He also added that President Buhari didn’t go to Europe but Europe came to him in Japan, where the EU had him sign an MOU for 50 Million Euro in support to the country’s devastated North East.

“The joke is not on President Buhari. The joke is on Moghalu for attempting to make ignorance fashionable,” he added.

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