- President Buhari is on an official visit to Poland for UN Climate Change Conference in Katowice
- The president used the opportunity to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum where he paid tribute to Holocaust victims
- He had earlier addressed Nigerians in the country
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, December 4, visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, in Oświęcim, Poland, where he paid tribute to Holocaust victims.
This was disclosed in a statement made available to Legit.ng by Garba Shehu, senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity.
After touring the Museum, devoted to the memory of the victims who died at both camps during World War II, President Buhari penned a hand-written tribute in the visitor’s book, quoting Shakespeare’s ''Julius Caesar".
''The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones''.
President Buhari laying a wreath at Block 11 of the museum, known as the ‘Death block.’ Credit: Facebook/Femi Adesina
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President Buhari pays tribute to victims of Holocaust. Credit: Facebook/Femi Adesina
President Buhari penned a hand-written tribute in the visitor’s book, quoting Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Credit: Facebook/Femi Adesina
President Buhari on a guided tour at Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, in Oświęcim, Poland. Credit: Facebook/Femi Adesina
The president also laid a wreath at Block 11 of the museum, known as the ‘‘Death block.’’ Here, according to an epitaph in the Block: ''Male and female prisoners from all parts of the camp complex where held in this building…following brutal interrogations, they were in most cases sentenced to death by shooting.''
Before leaving the Museum, which includes the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau, President Buhari, fielding questions from State House Correspondents traveling with him, described those fanning embers of discord in Nigeria as ''illiterates and ignorant.''
The president is on an official visit to Poland, where he had attended the opening of the UN Climate Change Conference in Katowice, delivered his national address at the 12-day meeting of COP24, met with several world leaders and visited the impressive Nigerian pavilion at the climate summit.
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He had earlier attended a town-hall meeting with Nigerians in Poland, a day after his arrival in the country where he finally reacted to insinuations that he may have been cloned and that he is not the actual person in Aso Rock as the nation’s leader.
Buhari, who is in Poland for an official engagement, said that he is alive and would soon celebrate his 76th birthday. According to Bashir Ahmad, his personal assistant on new media.
"A lot of people hoped that I died during my ill health. It is real me... I will soon celebrate my 76th birthday and I will still go strong.” - President @MBuhari this evening in Kraków, Poland. His response to a question of him being cloned,” Ahmed Bashar, the president’s spokesperson said.
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