Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has departed Abuja Thursday morning for Accra, Ghana to represent Nigeria at an Extraordinary Summit of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government.
The summit is to deliberate on the political situation in some African countries including Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea.
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, Senior Special Assistant to the President, Laolu Akande said in a statement on Thursday.
The statement said the meeting was 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 despatched to Quagadougou to meet with the military junta who recently seized power in Burkina Faso.
It said last Monday, soldiers forced the removal of democratically elected President Roch March Kabore from office in a military coup. The military takeover of government in Burkina Faso follows the same occurrence in Mali and Guinea recently.
The Vice President will be accompanied by the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Zubairu Dada, Presidential Special Adviser on Economic Matters, Dr. Adeyemi Dipeolu, himself also an Ambassador, and other top Nigerian diplomats. The VP is expected back in Abuja later today, the statement added.