A nine-person team led by US President Joe Biden will attend the inauguration of Bola Tinubu, the president-elect of Nigeria, on May 29 in Abuja, Nigeria.
“I am honored,” tweeted Judd Devermont, on Monday evening. Mr Devermont is the special assistant to US President Joseph Biden and senior director for African Affairs in the National Security Council, as he expressed his sentiments on being a part of the Presidential Delegation that will travel to Nigeria in the coming days.
On Monday 22 May, Mr Biden announced a 9-person Presidential Delegation to represent him and America, “to the Federal Republic of Nigeria to Attend the Inauguration of His Excellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu” on 29 May 2023, in Abuja, Nigeria, led by the Marcia Fudge, who is the 18th U.S. Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. Her leading the delegation is noteworthy because she is a past Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. She served as a legislator in the U.S. Congress—110th–117th (2007–2021), a period of fourteen years—representing the Democratic Party.
As the chief diplomat of an embassy that was established in the host nation in 1960, David Greene, Chargé d’Affaires, of the US Department of State’s overseas mission, the US Embassy in Nigeria, will legitimately be a member of the delegation. At the U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit he hosted in December, Mr. Biden promised to quicken high-level trips by senior administration officials to Africa.
Sydney Kamlager-Dove is a different candidate; she is a congresswoman from California’s 37th District. She belongs to Mr. Biden’s Democratic Party as well.
To lead the [US] federal government’s efforts to support American businesses entering or expanding into international markets, enforce fair trade laws, promote travel and tourism to the United States and U.S. products and services abroad, provide in-depth trade analyses, develop strategies that will shape the future of international trade, and engage in commercial diplomacy, Mr. Biden appointed an attorney to her position on December 28, 2021. Because of this, Mr. Biden made a commendable choice in Marisa Lago, U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, US Department of Commerce.
General Michael Langley of the US Marine Corps is the sixth commanding general of the US Africa Command, also known as AFRICOM. He assumed this role in August of last year. He is in charge of all military actions carried out by the United States in Africa and the surrounding seas. Since beginning his position, he has prioritized “face-to-face” contact, according to AFRICOM’s public affairs. “We will support African-led efforts to work toward political solutions to costly conflicts, increasing terrorist activity, and humanitarian crises, such as those in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Somalia, and the Sahel,” they emphasize, adding that they will also “invest in local and international peacebuilding and peacekeeping to prevent new conflicts from emerging.”
The delegation will benefit from the addition of TEXEM Advert Monde Muyangwa, who was chosen by Vice President Biden to serve as the assistant administrator for the Bureau for Africa at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and has extensive knowledge of US-African relations.
“The U.S. is the largest foreign investor in Nigeria, with U.S. foreign direct investment concentrated largely in the petroleum/mining and wholesale trade sectors. At $2.2 billion in 2017, Nigeria is the second largest U.S. export destination in Sub-Saharan Africa,” according to the State Department.
