Bola Tinubu, head of Ecowas, says he wants to send a 'warning signal' to the coup plotters. Nigeria
Also receive offers from The Africa Report“We did not invest in our armies, their uniforms, their training, and their boots so that they could turn against the people,” said Tinubu. “We invested in them to defend the sovereignty of their country, and now they want to set up their own government. We have to react; we can’t remain like dogs without fangs at ECOWAS. We have to bite back.”
Speaking at the end of the 9 July conference, Oumar Alieu Touray, president of the ECOWAS Commission, said “major sanctions” could be applied to transitioning countries that did not respect their electoral timetables. He urged them to remain “faithful to the 24-month transition timetable in a transparent and inclusive manner with all stakeholders”.Tinubu, for his part, said he wanted to send a “warning signal” to coup plotters.
More than 40 days after his inauguration as Nigeria’s president, Tinubu has still not named his ministers and therefore has no one to tackle these burning regional issues.In the meantime, the Nigerian president has started to cultivate certain alliances, notably with Paris where he stayed before his inauguration. “France remains a privileged partner of ECOWAS and Tinubu is open to such collaboration,” says a well-informed source who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Obasanjo acted as a mediator after the 2003 coup d’état in the archipelago of São Tomé and Príncipe, and tried to ease tensions between Alassane Ouattara and Guillaume Soro in Côte d’Ivoire in 2017. In 2020, Tinubu’s predecessor,Describing the putsch as “awith serious consequences for peace and security”, he called on the Malian authorities to “act responsibly” to ensure the restoration of constitutional order.
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