Ignatius Kaigama, the archbishop of the Abuja Catholic Diocese, has praised President Bola Tinubu for his trip to Rome and meeting with Pope Leo XIV.

Tinubu’s trip to Rome demonstrated a tangible interreligious interaction, according to Kaigama.

The Catholic bishop traveled with Tinubu to Rome’s Vatican City.

Tinubu received an invitation from Pope Leo XIV to attend his formal installation on Sunday of last week.

Pope Francis passed away a few weeks ago, and Pope Leo XIV was elected by the college of Cardinals.

Tinubu is an assistant pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God, or RCCG, and a Yoruba Muslim who is married to a Christian.

However, Kaigama stated: “Just last Sunday, four of us Catholic bishops were with President Tinubu in Rome for the inauguration of the New Pope,” during a speech in Jalingo, Taraba State.

And in my opinion, it was a very important gesture from a Muslim president, a positive indication of his commitment to meaningful interreligious dialogue.

“Inter-religious dialogue doesn’t have to be theoretical, it has to be concrete, the dialogue of life. As a Muslim he went to an overwhelmingly Christian occasion and he was well accepted by the Pope.”