Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo is expected to depart Abuja Thursday (today) for Accra, Ghana to represent Nigeria at an Extraordinary Summit of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government deliberating on the political situation in Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea.

According to a release issued Thursday by the Media Assistant to the vice-president, Laolu Akande, the one-day meeting which is coming as part of the resolutions reached at last week’s virtual meeting chaired by Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo, will review the report of the ECOWAS delegation despatched to Quagadougou to meet with the military junta who recently seized power in Burkina Faso.4

The summit will be attended by regional leaders who will be considering imposing additional sanctions after the country was suspended from the regional body last week.

Last Monday, soldiers forced the removal of democratically elected President Roch March Kabore from office in a military coup.

The military takeover of government in Burkina Faso follows the same occurrence in Mali and Guinea recently.

The president had been delegating the vice-president to represent Nigeria at a series of ECOWAS leaders’ summits on the issues of undemocratic and military takeover of governments in the region.

The vice-resident will be accompanied by the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Zubairu Dada; Presidential Special Adviser on Economic Matters, Dr. Adeyemi Dipeolu and other top Nigerian diplomats.

The vice-president is expected back in Abuja later Thursday.

Culled from This Day