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Osinbajo represents Buhari at ECOWAS emergency Summit in Ghana
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo departed the shores of Nigeria in the early hours of Thursday to represent President Muhammadu Buhari at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) emergency summit on the recurring coups in the West African subregion.
Leaders of the West African subregion convened the emergency Extraordinary Summit of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government in Accra, Ghana, after the coup in Burkina Faso on January 24, the third country among the 15-member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) the military have overthrown the president.
The meeting of the West African leaders on Thursday, was scheduled to commence at 1000 GMT to assess the outcome of two missions to Burkina after the coup.
Burkina Faso is the latest country the military has staged coup, after Mali, where there was a coup in September 2020; after the coup in Guinea where President Alpha Conde was overthrown.
The military uprising in Guinea-Bissau on Tuesday where President Umaro Sissoco Embalo was momentarily missing, generated apprehension of another coup in the subregion.
Details later.
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