Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has task African nations on the need to work together especially in developing their economies for the benefit of their people ahead of other forms of international cooperation.
Osinbajo stated this while receiving the visiting Vice President of Liberia, Mr. Joseph Nyumah Boakai in his office at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
According to him in a statement by his spokesman Laolu Akande , “we have to help ourselves first before others come, we should look for ways we can benefit each other.”
“We must engender stronger relationships between our countries, that is what Africans need,” the Nigerian Vice President stated, adding that Nigeria and Liberia need to work together “to develop our economies.”
While noting the important task for African governments to create enabling environments for agricultural and industrial development, he stressed that “our people depend on what government is able to do for them.”
In his own remarks, Vice President Boakai of Liberia commended Nigeria saying “Nigeria remains a very important big brother to Liberia. You have made a lot of sacrifices to our country, including through ECOMOG and the United Nations Mission in Liberia, UNMIL.”