Pope Leo XIV invites Tinubu to inauguration in Rome

President Bola Tinubu will join other world leaders at the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV in Rome on Saturday.

This followed the invitation of the the United States-born pontiff who was elected on May 8.

Pope Leo XIV, real name Robert Prevost, was the 267th Head of the Catholic Church and the first American to hold the position.

The Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to the President, Bayo Onanuga, announced the his principal’s invitation to the event slated for St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican.

The statement read:”

“In the Papal invitation sent by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Pope Leo XIV underscored the need for President Tinubu’s physical presence ‘at this moment of particular importance for the Catholic Church and the world afflicted by many tensions and conflicts.

“Pope Leo further stressed: ‘Your great nation is particularly dear to me as I worked in the Apostolic Nunciature in Lagos during the 1980s.’

“President Tinubu’s entourage includes the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Archbishop of Owerri and President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria, Archbishop Lucius Ugorji, Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Abuja, and Alfred Martins of Lagos.”

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