Between September 4 and 6, 2024, President Bola Tinubu and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will have bilateral meetings at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit.

Tinubu will travel to China to attend the summit on behalf of the ECOWAS, a West African organization. The head of state and government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is the president of Nigeria.

Tinubu will talk about regional security and peace at the conference, presidential spokesman Ajuri Ngelale informed State House reporters on Tuesday.

Ngelale went on to say that the trip is intended to bring Nigeria substantial economic benefits.

The scheduled meeting between Tinubu and one of the most powerful presidents in the world would occur in the midst of a Chinese company, Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. Limited, seizing numerous Nigerian assets.
Usman Sarki, a former Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, had stated that using diplomatic measures is a certain way to stop the company from seizing Nigerian assets abroad.

In order to settle the dispute between the Chinese corporation and the Federal Government of Nigeria, Sarki encouraged Tinubu to meet with his Chinese counterpart as soon as feasible.

Recently, a French court decided in favor of the company and approved the seizure of the Nigerian government’s presidential planes.

The Chinese corporation was granted permission to detain three presidential airplanes that were undergoing routine repair in France as “security” for claims in a long-running legal battle between the foreign company and the government of Ogun State. The Paris court found in favor of the Chinese firm in the arbitration award case.