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Just in: Tinubu bows out as ECOWAS chairman
President Bola Tinubu’s tenure as the chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government comes to an end on Sunday, 7th of July, 2024.
The 65th Ordinary Session of the Authority is currently going on at the Presidential Villa in Abuja where he is expected to pass on the torch to another leader.
Tinubu was unanimously endorsed as chairman in July 2023 at the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau.
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The chairmanship of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) usually rotates between member states in no particular order.
Insiders say a Francophone country was expected to have produced the next chairman, but according to credible sources, the president of Nigeria will seek an extension at the 7 July summit in Abuja, in order to “stabilise the region”.
Details later…
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