Tinubu: We’re Working Not to Compound Niger’s Crisis… 

 President Bola Tinubu and chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), yesterday, briefed the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) on the political impasse in the Republic of Niger and assured it that ECOWAS was doing everything possible not to compound the situation in the country.

Tinubu, who spoke when he received in audience, the Special Envoy of President Ali Bongo Ondimba and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Gabon, Mr. Hermann Immongault, at the State House, Abuja, however, welcomed the solidarity support offered by group, and also promised to work with Bongo.

But the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has pleaded with the Republic of Korea to support ECOWAS in its bid to restore democracy in some African countries under the military rule.

This was as the ECOWAS military chiefs have set Thursday and Friday for further deliberations in Accra, Ghana, as parts of efforts to assess options to open to them in resolving the political impasse in Niger, following the ouster of President Mohamed Bazoum, by a junta led by General Abdourahamane Tchiani.

Also, in solidarity with the position of the ECOWAS leadership and global allies, the German government has called on the junta in Niger to release the detained President Mohamed Bazoum and fully restore constitutional order in the country.

At the same time, the  Northern Elders Forum (NEF), yesterday, called on the federal government to remove all sanctions and other measures intended to force the government and people of Niger into acquiescence.

Nonetheless, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Professor of Political Science, Bolaji Akinyemi has described the ECOWAS intervention in Niger as a purpose to stop the spread of coups in the sub-region.