President Joe Biden met with Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Sunday on the sidelines of the just-concluded G20 Summit in New Delhi, India.
A statement by the U.S. Mission in Nigeria said the engagement between the two leaders was to deepen the U.S.-Nigeria relationship and the “longstanding friendship between our two countries and peoples.”
“President Biden welcomed the Tinubu administration’s steps to reform Nigeria’s economy and thanked President Tinubu for his strong leadership as the chair of the Economic Community of West African States to defend and preserve democracy and the rule of law in Niger and the broader region,” the statement read.
President Biden has been very supportive of the Tinubu administration since its inception.
The US President was one of the world leaders President Tinubu met at the Summit. Others were German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He also had sideline engagements with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and World Bank President Ajay Banga, among many others.
The meetings and informal engagements were part of President Tinubu’s diplomatic moves at the Summit towards enhancing practical steps in bilateral relations.
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