By The Metro 
President Bola Tinubu on Thursday received the outgoing President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Omar Touray, at the State House, Abuja.
According to photographs released by the State House media office, Touray visited the Presidential Villa in the company of the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye.
Although details of the closed-door meeting were not immediately made public, Thursday’s meeting came weeks before the Gambian diplomat formally hands over the leadership of the executive arm of the regional bloc.
A career diplomat, Touray assumed office as President of the ECOWAS Commission on July 3, 2022, following his unanimous nomination by the Government of The Gambia and endorsement by the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government for the 2022–2026 term.
He succeeded Ivorian diplomat Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, who led the Commission from 2018.
Before his appointment at ECOWAS, Touray served as The Gambia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and later as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under former President Yahya Jammeh, a position from which he was dismissed in September 2009.
He subsequently worked with the Islamic Development Bank before returning to diplomatic service.