President Muhammadu Buhari, for the first time on Thursday wore a face mask in public since the COVID-19 pandemic started.
Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 had recommended the compulsory use of face mask while in public as one of the guidelines meant to curtail further spread of the virus in the country.
But since the pandemic, the President had never been seen with face mask even while receiving visitors to the Presidential Villa.
However, Buhari in a photograph shared on Thursday by his personal photographer, Bayo Omoboriowo, was seen wearing face mask in Bamako, Mali.
President Buhari in the photograph wore a white face mask as he disembarked the presidential jet in Bamako, Mali.
The presidential photographer, Omoboriowo captioned the picture as “@MBuhari arrives Bamako, Mali for the peace mission by the ECOWAS Head of states. 23rd July, 2020.”
President Buhari along with some West African leaders, are currently in the Malian capital to find a solution to the worsening political crisis in the francophone country.
On Wednesday, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Femi Adesina, announced that Buhari would join other leaders from the West African regional bloc on a peacekeeping mission to Mali.