President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigerian president who is also the Chairperson of the ECOWAS had said the bloc will resolve in the use of military force if the Niger coup leader does not surrender power to president Mohammed Bazoum
After a meeting of the bloc’s defence chiefs in Accra, Ghana’s capital city, ECOWAS said on Thursday, that it had begun the activation of its standby force in Niger.
However, in a Twitter post today, El-Rufai claimed military intervention would be a war between brothers.
“As ECOWAS beats the drums of war, I recall the 1970s rock classic by Dire Straits – ‘Brothers in Arms’, because a war within our subregion is a war between brothers.
“Indeed, the people of Niger Republic are one and the same with those living in Northern Nigeria. Let us bend therefore over backwards to avoid this civil war between brothers.”
Perhaps a more subtle way of resolving the Niger issue might suffice but hence this resolution by the ECOWAS.
