He will be away till Wednesday one week from now.
The Presidency clarified on Thursday that Buhari would be in Malabo to go to the fifth Gas Exporting Countries Forum Summit.
Different gas creating nations expected at the summit incorporate Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Bolivia, Iran, Qatar, Russia, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Kazakhstan, and Norway.
The nations "represent 70 percent and 80 percent of worldwide gas stores and creation individually", Presidential representative, Mr. Garba Shehu, said in an announcement.
It noticed, "The possibility of the GECF was first mooted in 2001 when the First Ministerial Meeting held in Tehran, Iran, while the First GECF generally called Gas Summit, occurred in Doha, Qatar in 2011 with Nigeria spoke to at the most elevated level.
"To be sure, President Buhari had gone to the Third Gas Summit in Tehran in November 2015. This Fifth Gas Summit in Malabo is the first run through the biennial gathering will be facilitated in Africa."
A solicitation to Buhari to go to the summit was conveyed to him on November 19 by the Special Envoy of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Mr. Gabriel Mbega Obiang Lima, in Abuja.
Buhari had told the emissary during the visit that "Nigeria is to a greater extent a gas creating as opposed to oil delivering nation. That reality had for quite some time been built up.
On the off chance that we had pursued our arrangements spread out during the 1970s for the gas part, we ought to have had 12 trains by mid-1980s, rather than being on only six trains."
The Presidency included, "Nigeria, being home to the biggest demonstrated petroleum gas holds in Africa, more than 202 trillion cubic feet, and the ninth-biggest on the planet,
the Malabo Summit gives a veritable stage to President Buhari to reaffirm Nigeria's pledge to the expansive destinations of the GECF, which among others,
look to 'bolster the sovereign privileges of part nations over their flammable gas assets and their capacity to autonomously design and deal with the supportable, effective and earth cognizant advancement, use and preservation of gaseous petrol assets to serve their kin.'
“The Nigerian delegation will also use the opportunity to discuss current trends in the global gas market, potential policies for the energy sector and opportunities for collaboration.
“At the end of the 5th Gas Summit, the Malabo Declaration is expected to be adopted.”
Those to be on the President’s entourage are the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama; Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva; Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbite; and the Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kolo Kyari.
“After the Summit, President Buhari will head for Daura, Katsina State, on a five-day official visit”, it said.
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