(NAN)
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday evening hosted leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to a pre-Conference dinner at the Presidential Villa, ahead of the 60th Session of the bloc.
Mr Sunday Aghaeze, Personal Assistant to the President (Photography) confirmed this in pictorial reports of the event.
Those who attended the dinner included the President of Ghana and Chairman of ECOWAS Authority, Nana Akufo-Addo; President of Togo, Faure Gnassingbe; and President Mohamed Bazoum of Niger Republic.
Others were President Macky Sall of Senegal; President Umaro Sissoco Embaló of Guinea Bissau; President Julius Bio of Sierra Leone; and President Jose Maria Neves of Cape Verde.
Presidents Adama Barrow of the Gambia and Alassane Ouattara of Cote D’ Ivoire also attended the dinner.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that a new Chairman of ECOWAS Authority may emerge at the end of Sunday’s Sixtieth Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS.
I don’t really know what they will be discussing as most of them have changed their constitution to stay in power. France ultimately must have briefed Mackey Sall of Sénégal, Bazoum of Niger, Eyadema of Togo, Akuffo of Ghana and Watara of Ivory Coast to push for more sanctions on Mali, Guinea, and Central African Republic because they have employed Russia back mercenaries to protect them from France hegemony. These three countries have been suffering from France inhumanity to their nations. It will be recalled that France could be relegated to the lowest country in the midst of world biggest economy as his access to mineral reserves in the countries have been disallowed by their newly imposed heads of government, apart from Central African Republic who was elected democratically. France has become uncomfortable because he has been eliminated from some francophones countries,; countries which he has continuously exploited since independence without citizens benefiting from their country’s wealth.. No one would like to have military juntas as government holders but I think in the case of Mali and Republic of Guinea, they should be allowed to put in place security, water, education, health care and revamping their economy that has been ruined by France.