Former President has paid a glowing tribute to the late former President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, describing him as an exceptional patriot and a committed integrationist whose leadership left a lasting imprint on West Africa and the continent at large.
In a post shared on his Facebook page on Monday, July 14, 2025, Akufo-Addo wrote, "The redoubtable Muhammadu Buhari was an outstanding Nigerian patriot and a staunch African integrationist.
He was well-known to us in Ghana, which he visited often in his youth and belonged to the generation of young West Africans who became involved in the tumultuous events of the early years of independence, including the Nigerian Civil War." Akufo-Addo noted that Muhammadu Buhari was deeply involved in the events that defined Nigeria's early post-independence years, including the Nigerian Civil War. "He was well known to us in Ghana, having visited often in his younger years, and belonged to that generation of West Africans shaped by the turbulent early years of independence," he stated.
He recalled their collaboration during his presidency, particularly in the formation of the Accra Initiative, a regional security framework designed to combat terrorism, violent extremism, and transnational organised crime, especially in response to the threat of extremist infiltration from the Sahel to Coastal West Africa. "As presidents, we collaborated in many ways including successfully hammering out the Accra Initiative, a potent blueprint on strengthening operational collaboration against terrorism, violent extremism, transnational organised crime and the downward drift of terrorist activities from the Sahel to the Coastal States.
