President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday directed Senator George Akume, Secretary to the Authorities of the Federation to steer a delegation of Nigerians to the funeral of Reverend Jesse Jackson, the American civil rights chief and activist.
Bayo Onanuga, the Particular Adviser to the President on Info and Technique mentioned Akume could be main a 5-person delegation for the previous US presidential candidate’s funeral.
In keeping with Onanuga, the Nigerian delegates are anticipated to characterize President Tinubu on the funeral rites of an activist who died on the age of 84 on February 17, in Chicago.
Different members are the Minister of State for Overseas Affairs, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu; the Minister of Arts, Tradition and Inventive Financial system, Hannatu Musawa; the Particular Presidential Envoy for International and Pan-African Affairs, Brian Browne; and the Senior Particular Assistant, Overseas Affairs and Worldwide Relations, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaye.
Onanuga mentioned, “The delegation will ship President Tinubu’s message of condolences to the Jackson household.”
He added that Tinubu, in an earlier tribute, had described Jackson as a terrific good friend of Nigeria and Africa who served as an ethical voice and a formidable resistance to apartheid in South Africa.
Jackson’s funeral rites would start on February 26, with a lying-in-state at Rainbow PUSH Coalition in Chicago. Providers in South Carolina and Washington, D.C., and a lying-in-state on the South Carolina Statehouse had been scheduled for March 1 to five.
Additionally, on March 6, a “Folks’s Celebration” will happen at Home of Hope in Chicago, adopted by a non-public homegoing on March 7 on the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.