Cote d’Ivoire President, Alhasan Ouattara has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for taking Nigeria out of recession.
He spoke to newsmen in Abuja after a closed-door meeting with his Nigerian counterpart at the Presidential Villa.
He said that they discussed “how to strengthen existing bilateral relations between Nigeria and Cote d’Ivoire.”
According to him, Buhari had accepted to be part of the African Union summit slated for the end of November in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire.
Ouattara harped on the need to deepen democratic governance in the sub-region, saying his meeting with Buhari focused on political situations in Togo and Liberia.
Buhari and Ouattara met officially for the first time since the inauguration of the current in Nigeria on May 29, 2015
