Eleven out of the sixteen Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Heads of State and Government are currently in a closed-door session at the Extraordinary meeting over the military coup in Niger Republic.
Naija News reports that the Extraordinary summit is currently taking place at the Old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Present in the meeting are the ECOWAS Chairman and President of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu, President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone, President. Umaro Mokhtar Sissoco of Guinea Bissau and President Everiste Ndayishimiye of Burundi.
Others are President Alassane Ouattara of Cote d’Ivoire, President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani of Mauritania , President Nana Akofo-Ado of Ghana, President Macky Sall of Senegal, President Patrice Talon of Benin Republic and Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé Eyadéma of
Togo
The Gambia and Liberia are member-states being represented by their Ministers of Foreign Affairs. Those absent are the heads of state in the troubled Niger Republic, Mali, Chad, and Burkina Faso.
It was gathered that the meeting would be deliberating on the next line of actions that will follow up on the resolutions and ultimatum issued to the Nigerien junta, which recently sacked the administration of the democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum.
