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Pope Leo XIV Invites President Tinubu To Inauguration On Sunday

...Ugorji, Kaigama, Martin's, Kuka to accompany Tinubu on trip

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May 15, 2025
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Pope Leo XIV Invites President Tinubu To Inauguration On Sunday
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will depart Abuja for Rome, the capital of Italy, on Saturday, May 17, 2025, at the invitation of Pope Leo XIV.

President Tinubu will be accompanied on the visit by top Catholic leaders.

Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information & Strategy confirmed this in a statement on Thursday

While in Rome, President Tinubu will attend a solemn mass marking the beginning of the Pontificate of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, the 267th Bishop of Rome and the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

In the Papal invitation sent by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Pope Leo XIV underscored the need for President Tinubu’s physical presence “at this moment of particular importance for the Catholic Church and the world afflicted by many tensions and conflicts.

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Pope Leo further stressed: “Your great nation is particularly dear to me as I worked in the Apostolic Nunciature in Lagos during the 1980s.”

President Tinubu’s entourage includes the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Archbishop of Owerri and President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria, Archbishop Lucius Ugorji, Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Abuja, and Alfred Martins of Lagos.

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Hassan Kukah, is also in the president’s entourage.

Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, will be formally installed to the exalted office on Sunday, May 18, at St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican.

The Conclave of Cardinals elected him 27 days after his predecessor, Pope Francis, died on April 21.

President Tinubu will return to Abuja on Tuesday, May 20.
(vitalnewsngr.com)

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