President Tinubu Sends Ex-Military Ruler Abdulsalami, Others To Niger Republic For Dialogue To End Deadlock After Coup | Sahara Reporters

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The Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, President Bola Tinubu, has dispatched a delegation to Niger Republic with a mandate to expeditiously resolve the current political impasse in the country. The action was in line with the resolution reached at the end of the extraordinary summit of the ECOWAS held last weekend in Abuja. The delegation, headed by former Nigerian Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (Rtd), left for Niamey on Thursday following a briefing by President Tinubu at the State House in Abuja.

President Tinubu Sends Ex-Military Ruler Abdulsalami, Others To Niger Republic For Dialogue To End Deadlock After CoupThe action was in line with the resolution reached at the end of the extraordinary summit of the ECOWAS held last weekend in Abuja.

The action was in line with the resolution reached at the end of the extraordinary summit of the ECOWAS held last weekend in Abuja. The former Nigerian Head of State is joined in the delegation by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar III and the President of the ECOWAS Commission, H.E. Omar Alieu Touray.

Briefing the two delegations, President Tinubu charged them to engage all stakeholders robustly with a view to doing whatever it takes to ensure a conclusive and amicable resolution of the situation in Niger for the purposes of African peace and development rather than a move to adopt the geopolitical positions of other nations.

 

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