{"id":79780,"date":"2025-12-08T00:45:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79780"},"modified":"2025-12-08T00:45:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:45:57","slug":"shettima-heads-to-cote-divoire-for-ouattaras-fourth-term-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/08\/shettima-heads-to-cote-divoire-for-ouattaras-fourth-term-inauguration\/","title":{"rendered":"Shettima Heads to C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire for Ouattara\u2019s Fourth-Term Inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vice President Kashim Shettima on Sunday departed Abuja for Abidjan, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, to represent President Bola Tinubu at Monday\u2019s swearing-in ceremony of President Alassane Ouattara, who is beginning his fourth term in office.<\/p>\n<p>The inauguration, scheduled for December 8 at the Ivorian Presidential Palace, will be attended by heads of state and dignitaries from across Africa and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Ouattara won a fourth mandate in the October 25 presidential election, extending his stewardship of the West African nation.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria and C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire enjoy long-standing diplomatic and economic ties, reinforced through ECOWAS, the African Union, and bilateral cooperation frameworks that cover security, trade, agriculture, and the digital economy.<\/p>\n<p>Shettima is accompanied by ECOWAS Commission President Omar Aliyu Touray; Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Senator Abubakar Sani Bello; and Hon. Usman Zannah of the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Vice President Kashim Shettima on Sunday departed Abuja for Abidjan, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, to represent President Bola Tinubu at Monday\u2019s swearing-in ceremony of President Alassane Ouattara, who is beginning his fourth term in office. The inauguration, scheduled for December 8 at the Ivorian Presidential Palace, will be attended by heads of state and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79782,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79780\/revisions\/79782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}