The Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, has departed Abuja for Accra, Ghana, to represent Nigeria at an Extraordinary Summit of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government.
Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, who disclosed this in a statement on Thursday, said Osinbajo will be representing Nigeria as the West African regional body will be deliberating on the political situation in Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea.
The meeting, which is coming as part of the resolutions reached at last week’s virtual meeting, chaired by Ghana’s President, Nana Akufo-Addo, will review the report of the ECOWAS delegation dispatched to Quagadougou, to meet with the military junta who recently seized power in Burkina Faso.
The summit will be attended by regional leaders, who will be considering imposing additional sanctions, after the country was suspended from the regional body last week.
Kokomansion understands that soldiers had last Monday, sacked the democratically elected President, Roch March Kabore, from office in a military coup.
The military takeover of government in Burkina Faso follows the same incident in Mali and Guinea recently.
President Muhammadu Buhari has been delegating the Vice President to represent Nigeria at a series of ECOWAS leaders’ summits on the issues of undemocratic, military takeover of governments in the region.
Osinbajo will be accompanied by the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Zubairu Dada; Presidential Special Adviser on Economic Matters, Dr Adeyemi Dipeolu and other top Nigerian diplomats.
He is expected to be back in Abuja later today.
