The Ghana Ministry of Information announced this via its“President @NAkufoAddo has just been elected as the new Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States , at the ongoing 57th ECOWAS Summit, which is being held in Niamey, capital of Niger,” it tweeted.
According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President made the call while presenting Nigeria’s General Statement. The statement quoted the President as saying that “It is important that as leaders of our individual member-states of ECOWAS, we need to adhere to the constitutional provisions of our countries, particularly on term limits. This is one area that generates crisis and political tension in our sub-region.
“I urge us all to resist the temptation of seeking to perpetuate ourselves in power beyond the constitutional provisions.
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