Tinubu Signs AU Charter’s Instrument on Persons with Disabilities Rights

Deji Elumoye in Abuja

President Bola Tinubu  yesterday  signed the Instrument of Ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa, which was adopted by the 30th Ordinary Session of the Assembly, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on the 29th day of January, 2018.

The president in signing the Instrument of Ratification stated: “I, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, do hereby formally declare that the Federal Republic of Nigeria accepts the aforementioned Protocol and undertakes to faithfully perform and carry out the stipulations therein contained;

“In witness whereof, I, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, have set my hand and Seal of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on this Instrument of Ratification at Abuja on this 19th day of October in the year Two Thousand and Twenty-Three.