President Muhammadu Buhari will
host an Extraordinary Summit of the Economic Community of West African States
(ECOWAS) Authority of Heads of State and Government tomorrow, Tuesday,
September 22, in Abuja, it was borne out of the recent coup d’état in Burkina Faso.
This was made known by the senior special
assistant to the president on media and publicity, Garba Shehu, the main item
on the agenda of the summit is the current political situation in Burkina Faso.
Buhari had
earlier on condemned the detention of the Interim President,
Prime Minister and other ministers of the transitional government of Burkina
Faso in a coup d’etat stressing that the “brazen contravention of the
constitution and transitional charter of Burkina Faso by elements of the
Presidential Guard under the leadership of General Gilbert Diendere”.
Gilbert Diendere, a former chief-of-staff to Mr.
Compaore, was named the head of the new junta called the National Council for
Democracy in Burkina Faso
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