Daniel Bwala, an aide to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), during the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, has urged President Bola Tinubu not to take any military actions against the embattled Niger Republic.
He stated that such actions would be for the benefit of Russia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
The aide insisted that the war would be an avenue for the West to scramble for Africa’s natural resources.
Speaking via a statement titled “ECOWAS AND POSSIBLE PROXY WAR IN AFRICA,” Bwala listed different situations that would occur if a war should ensue.
According to him, “This proxy war that ECOWAS wants to go into will be for the benefit of Russia and NATO. Totally avoidable; Why allow the West to use African soil as the battleground for the scramble for Africa’s natural resources? At the moment, they buy our resources because under international convention on war and peace they have no rights to invade any of Africa’s territory without invitation; but during war, they can, based on the various agreements they have with ECOWAS member states which led to the presence of their military bases in various African countries in the first place.
“Soon as the conflict starts, they take over oil fields and ancillaries where they would pretend to recover the money for either their supplies of arms or active war assistance.
“Once the conflicts starts they would ensure the war in Africa escalates and take hydra-headed dimensions.
“Once the war starts there would be no development, active trade activities and above all peace. I humbly beg President Tinubu to avoid the militarization of diplomacy in other to avoid predictable consequences.”
