Atiku vows to return Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso to ECOWAS

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has promised to enactment for the instrumentality of Niger Republic, Mali and Burkina Faso to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) if helium wins the 2027 statesmanlike election.

Atiku, the statesmanlike campaigner of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), besides said helium would see utilizing the ECOWAS Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) to amended determination information and combat terrorism.

He made the comments during an interrogation with the BBC Hausa Service portion discussing his plans for Nigeria and criticising immoderate policies of President Bola Tinubu’s administration.

Atiku said ECOWAS made a mistake by isolating Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso aft subject officers took power of the 3 countries.

He argued that the subject takeovers should not person ended diplomatic and determination engagement with the countries.

“I volition get the ECOWAS leaders to beryllium down and deliberate, and we volition usage ECOMOG troops to guarantee peace,” helium said.

Atiku besides criticised the attack taken by Nigeria nether Tinubu, who was ECOWAS president erstwhile the mili...