The Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has dispatched a delegation to Niger Republic with a mandate to expeditiously resolve the current political impasse in the country.
This comes amid the 7-day deadline to restore ousted President Mohamed Bazoum and the threat to use military option to force out the junta.
In a statement on Friday, Ajuri Ngelale, Presidential spokesman, said Tinubu’s reaction 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 left for Niamey today following a briefing by President Tinubu at the State House in Abuja.
The President has also sent a separate delegation led by Ambassador Babagana Kingibe to engage with the leaders of Libya and Algeria on the Niger crisis.
Both leaders of the two missions expressed optimism on the outcome of the assignments