A day after he had a meeting with Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama on the recent xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South Africa, President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday met behind closed doors with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Onyeama at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
News of the meeting was broken by the President’s Personal Assistant on New Media, Alhaji Bashir Ahmed, who posted the pictures of the event on his twitter handle.
A presidential source confided in NAN that the agenda of the meeting, which is currently ongoing, would include the ongoing xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South Africa.
Buhari had on Sept. 3 dispatched a Special Envoy to convey to President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa his deep concerns over the unabated attacks on Nigerian citizens and property in South Africa since Aug. 29.
NAN reports that South Africans commenced fresh attacks, looting and burning of businesses and properties belonging to Nigerians and other nationals and in the process killed three people.
And in Nigeria, there had been reported cases of reprisal attacks on South African businesses around the country, but the police were able to foil most of them.
Details later.
