Five countries have shunned the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, meeting currently ongoing in Nigeria.
According to The PUNCH, the Defence Chiefs from Guinea, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Guinea are conspicuously missing at the meeting.
While Defence Chiefs from Ghana, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Senegal, The Gambia, Cote D’Ivoire, and Cape Verde are in attendance at the meeting, which is taking place at the Defence Headquarters in Abuja.
Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa presided over the meeting, which began at 12:30 p.m.
The meeting comes after the Economic Community of West African States gave a seven-day deadline after the military coup in Niger Republic.
Recall that members of the elite Presidential Guard had detained President Bazoum of Niger inside his palace in the capital, Niamey, early on Wednesday, July 26th.
The military, through its Spokesman, Colonel-Major Amadou Abdramane, on Wednesday night, announced on state television that it had overthrown the government of President Mohamed Bazoum.
