Breaking: President Tinubu steps aside as ECOWAS chairman

• A brand fresh chairman might perchance seemingly emerge on the Economic Neighborhood of West African States (ECOWAS) sixty fifth Habitual Session meeting in Abuja
• Here’s because President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s tenure as ECOWAS Chairman will elapse on Tuesday, July 9, 2024
• The presidents and representatives of 12 member states will converge to decide on a brand fresh chairman on Sunday, July 7

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FCT, Abuja – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will step aside as the Chairman of the Economic Neighborhood of West African States (ECOWAS) Authority of Heads of Explain and Executive on Tuesday, July 9.

The Nigerian president, Tinubu’s tenure involves an end on the present time (Sunday).

Tinubu is predicted to circulate on the torch to 1 more leader on the sixty fifth Habitual Session of the Authority on the 2nd keeping on the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Nigerian Tribune reports.

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Legit.ng recollects that Tinubu modified into unanimously suggested as ECOWAS chairman in July 2023 on the 63rd Habitual Session of the Authority in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau.

It modified into gathered that presidents and representatives of 12 member states will converge on the Explain Condominium Conference Centre, Abuja, for an Extraordinary Summit on Sunday, July 7.

The meeting would seemingly gape the West African leaders opt a brand fresh chair to ebook the affairs of the bloc for the next three hundred and sixty five days, The Punch reports.

On the bogus hand, there are indications that Tinubu’s tenure might perchance seemingly well be prolonged to give him time to seemingly ranking again Niger Republic, Mali and Burkina Faso again to the Payment.

A Presidency source who spoke on condition of anonymity said:

“Some people narrate he ought to hand over and others narrate he ought to proceed. However they are going to mediate the next day.”

Tinubu sues for peace amid Niger’s risk to exit ECOWAS

Within the intervening time, Legit.ng reported that Tinubu tasked legislators of the ECOWAS parliament to be particular that that Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali remain in the subregional body.

Tinubu, who moreover serves as the chairman of the regional body, talked about this forward of the philosophize-in of the legislators on the International Conference Centre (ICC), Abuja, on Thursday, April 4, 2023.

He suggested the parliamentarians that it is miles their responsibility to attain resolute grounds utilizing diplomatic map to unify the placement and again enhance its pattern.

Source: Legit.ng