Senate President Godswill Akpabio and the rest of the Nigerian delegation have arrived in Vatican City in preparation for Pope Francis’s funeral, which will take place on Saturday.
Akpabio is heading the five-member delegation, which was sent by President Bola Tinubu to represent Nigeria at the funeral of the late head of the Roman Catholic Church.
The delegation also includes:
- Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu Ojukwu
- President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, Archbishop Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji
- Archbishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah
- Archbishop of Abuja Diocese, Ignatius Ayua Kaigama.
“As the Leader of Nigeria’s delegation to the burial ceremony of Pope Francis, I paid tribute to our departed Pope, on behalf of President Bola Tinubu and the Nigerian People at the Lying-in-State of Pope Francis, inside St Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City,” Akpabio wrote in a post on Facebook on Friday.
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