President Muhammadu Buhari has celebrated his 79th birthday in Turkey.
Gatekeepers News reports that President Buhari’s delegates who departed with him to attend the third Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit have celebrated him on his 79th birthday.
The Presidential Spokesman, Garba Shehu disclosed this in a statement he titled “HERE IS HOW PRESIDENT BUHARI MARKED HIS 79TH BIRTHDAY IN TURKEY.”
The statement read, “On his 79th birthday, today Friday in Istanbul, Turkey, President Muhammadu Buhari cut a birthday cake moulded in national colours, green-white-green to start the day, went straight to chair a planning meeting with officials in his delegation and thereafter drove to the Dolmabahce Palace for a meeting with his Turkish counterpart, Tayyip Recep Erdogan.
“In response to the tribute on the occasion on behalf of the ministers and the rest of the delegation rendered by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, President Buhari said he will put in his best for Nigeria until the last day when in 2023 he hands over to a successor and returns to his farm to tender crops and livestock.”
Shehu quoted the President saying, “I thought that being away from Abuja I will escape these things. The Guards Brigade had written to tell me what they wanted to do on this day. Now here you are doing this far away from home.
“I look forward to the year 2023 when I finish, to go home to take charge of my farm. Between now and that time, I will do the best that is possible to advance the interest of the nation and its people, and carry out my duties as prescribed by the Constitution.”
The statement read further, “As he stepped out of his suite moving to the meeting room, President Buhari met a surprise lineup of the Nigerian delegation with a cake decorated in Nigeria’s national colours.
“The group broke into a chorus, as they began chanting “Happy Birthday, Mr. President.”
According to the Presidential Spokesman, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama who spoke on behalf of the delegation and the Ambassador of Nigeria to Turkey, Ismail Yusuf Abba, congratulated the President on the good work he is doing for the country and wished him a happy birthday, many healthy years ahead and the energy to give his best to the nation.
