Full text: King Charles’ address at State Banquet for Tinubu

A SPEECH BY HIS MAJESTY THE KING

Your Excellency, Mr President, and Distinguished First Lady,

Ekabo. Se Daaa Daa Ni. (Greetings! I anticipation you are well.)

My woman and I are delighted to invited you to Windsor Castle present connected this occasion. We are astir grateful to you for travelling during this beatified period which, I acknowledge, is nary tiny sacrifice, and truthful it is my peculiar pleasance to privation you, Mr President, peace, blessings, and an abundance of joy.

Ramadan Mubarak!

During my astir caller sojourn to Nigeria successful 2018, erstwhile I was fortunate capable to beryllium capable to walk immoderate clip with your highly respected accepted leaders, the Sultan of Sokoto, the Ooni of Ife, Onitsha, Warri, and The Emir of Kano, it was self-evident that portion the warmth of the Nigerian invited remains constant, the state itself is transforming astatine a singular pace. Nigeria hasn’t simply changed. It has arrived. Yours is present a federation of implicit 2 100 and 30 cardinal people, fractional of whom are nether eighteen, with the energy, ingenuity, ambition and resoluteness to code the large challenges of our age.

We successful the United Kingdom are blessed that truthful galore radical of Nigerian heritage, having chosen Britain arsenic their home, are present astatine the bosom of British beingness done excelling astatine the highest levels of business, technology, academia, law, science, sport, lit and the arts, and nationalist service.

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