State Visit: President Tinubu Preparing For Trip To Qatar Next Month, Rejected Business And Investment Forum ‘Tangential’ -Presidency
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is getting set for his planned state visit to Qatar between March 2 and 3, 2024, and it will be wrong for anyone to insinuate that the Qatar government had snubbed the president, the presidency submitted on Saturday.
Recall that the Qatar government had rejected President Bola Tinubu ‘s business and investment forum trip to the Arab country.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned that the Embassy of the State of Qatar in Abuja had made this known in a letter dated February 22, 2024, which was addressed to the Protocol Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , Abuja.
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry in Qatar had however apologized for the rejection of the proposed business visit.
‘The Embassy of the State of Qatar in Abuja presents its compliments to the Protocol Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Regarding the upcoming state visit of H. E. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to Qatar from March 2 to 3, 2024 and with reference to your note: Ref: ME.631 2024 dated 12/02/2024, which proposed the holding of a business and investment forum on the margins of Mr. President’s visit to Qatar on March 2, 2024.
The Embassy has the honour to note that the Ministry of Commerce and Industry in Qatar apologizes that it will not be able to hold a business and investment forum as proposed by the Nigerian side’ the embassy submitted while also noting that ‘there is no agreement signed between the State of Qatar and the Federal Republic of Nigeria on investment promotion and protection’.
‘His Excellency, the Minister of Commerce and Industry, will be carrying out official missions outside the country during the upcoming visit period.
The State of Qatar will be hosting a web summit during the suggested period and the state’s authorities will be preoccupied with this event’ the embassy had added.
President Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, submitted on Saturday that the Qatar government did not snub the president.
‘It is not correct for anyone to insinuate that the Qatari authorities have snubbed the Nigerian leader over a business and investment forum which is tangential to the all-important state visit and which President Tinubu is slated to attend as a guest’ Onanuga asserted in a statement titled, ‘President Bola Tinubu’s state visit to Qatar’.
‘We are aware of a leaked diplomatic correspondence between the Embassy of the State of Qatar in Abuja and our Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s state visit to Qatar between March 2 and 3, 2024.
The leaked diplomatic paper by mischief makers about an investment forum is not in any way a snub of President Tinubu by the Qatari government’ he added- Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980. Thank you
