Tinubu’s inauguration will have a US presidential delegation there, according to Biden.

On his part, US President Joe Biden has designated a delegation to attend President-elect Bola Tinubu’s inauguration on Monday.

This was announced by the White House on Monday in a statement with the official title “President Biden Announces Presidential Delegation to the Federal Republic of Nigeria to Attend the Inauguration of His Excellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”

The statement claims that Marcia L. Fudge, secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, will serve as the delegation’s leader. The delegation will consist of nine people.

The designation of a presidential delegation to attend His Excellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s inauguration on May 29, 2023, in Abuja, Nigeria, was made public by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., according to a statement from the White House.

The Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Marisa Lago, and Chargé d’Affaires, a.i., U.S. Embassy Abuja, Sydney Kamlager-Dove, round out the members of the Presidential Delegation.

General Michael E. Langley, head of the U.S. Africa Command, Enoh T. Ebong, director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, and Mary Catherine Phee, assistant secretary of state for the bureau of African affairs at the U.S. Department of State, are also part of the delegation.

Others include Monde Muyangwa, Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Africa at the U.S. Agency for International Development, and Judd Devermont, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council.