Osinbajo To Attend Sierra Leone’s Independence Event

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will on Tuesday depart Abuja for Freetown to represent Nigeria at Sierra Leone’s 60th Independence celebration.

Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja.

Osinbajo will be joining several other Heads of State and Government from Africa and beyond who are expected to converge on Freetown, Sierra Leone, for the event.

Historically,  Nigeria and Sierra Leone have shared cordial relations from colonial times. The relationship has continued and evidenced in the socio-economic, technical, and security cooperation over the years.

The vice president will be accompanied on the trip by the Foreign Affairs Minister of State, Ambassador Zubairu Dada, among others. He is expected back in Abuja later on Tuesday.

Sierra Leone achieved independence from the UK on April 27, 1961, and Milton Margai became the country’s first Prime Minister. It held its first general election as an independent nation on May 27, 1962. Siaka Stevens was democratically elected Prime Minister in 1967.