 Guinea-Bissau's President Umar al-Sissouq al-Embaloo paid his solidarity and willingness to cooperate with Nigeria during his visit to President Ballatini Buu Atikoi Lagos, said the special adviser to the president's special duties, communication and strategy, Dele Allaque. Allaque addressed state house correspondence moments after the two leaders met. The presidential adviser also noted that the visite allowed Embaloo, who is the chairman of the ECOS Authority of Heads of State and Government, to reinforce the fritano relations between the two countries. It was strictly a private visit. It wasn't anything official at all. It was a private visit and we had to be on hand to receive him and our president, President Ballatini Buu, received him very warmly and the president of Guinea-Bissau himself exuded some enthusiasm and warmth, which is uncharacteristic, you know, untypical of what we saw in the past. You know, he was very forthcoming. He was very expressive. He expressed his solidarity with the president of Nigeria and his readiness to cooperate with Nigeria at all times and with our current president. And he commanded the laudable and, you know, policy initiatives of President Ballatini Buu in the last one month. And he said that everybody in the world, in the international community, have been, you know, commending his giant strides. So he came to pay his solidarity and to pay cutsical, as it were, and to, you know, bond with him as a brother African head of state in the first instance and in particular as a brother West African echo as head of state.