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BREAKING: Senate Rejects Tinubu’s Request For Military Intervention In Niger

the Senate made the resolution on Saturday after a closed-door session that lasted close to two hours to discuss the letter written to the Senate on Friday by President Bola Tinubu on the decisions taken by the regional body, reports TheNiche.

by NewsOnline Nigeria
August 6, 2023
in Headline, Politics
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Senate has rejected President Tinubu’s request for military intervention in the Niger Republic.

 

Newsonline Nigeria reports that the Senate has called on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and other leaders of the region to strengthen political and diplomatic options and other means to resolve the political quagmire in Niger Republic.

 

This Nigeria News platform understands that the Senate made the resolution on Saturday after a closed-door session that lasted close to two hours to discuss the letter written to the Senate on Friday by President Bola Tinubu on the decisions taken by the regional body.

 

It condemned the Niger coup in totality and commended President Bola Tinubu and other Heads of State of the other States of ECOWAS for their prompt response and the positions taken on the development in the Niger Republic.

 

Reading the resolutions of the senators after the meeting, Senate President Godswill Akpabio said that “the Senate recognizes that President Tinubu via his correspondence has not asked for the approval of the parliament of this Senate to go to war as erroneously suggested in some quarters.

 

“Rather Mr President has expressed a wish to respectfully solicit the support of the National Assembly in the successful implementation of the resolutions of the ECOWAS as outlined in the said communication.

 

“The Senate calls on the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as the chairman of ECOWAS to further encourage other leaders of ECOWAS to strengthen political and diplomatic options and other means intending to resolve the political compass in Niger Republic.

 

“The National Assembly to the ECOWAS under the leadership of President Tinubu in resolving the political situation in Niger and returning the country to democratic governance in the nearest future.

 

“The leadership of the Senate is mandated to further engage with the president and commander in chief with on behalf of the Senate and the entire National Assembly on how best to resolve the issue given the hitherto existing cordial relationship between Nigerieans and Nigerians.

 

“Finally, the Senate calls on the ECOWAS parliament to rise to the occasion by equally condemning this coup and also positing solutions to resolving this compass as soon as possible.”

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