Tinubu Elected Chairman Of The Economic ECOWAS
President Bola Tinubu has been elected the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
He was elected during the sixty third ordinary session of the regional bloc in Bissau, the Guinea Bissau capital.
Tinubu, recieiving hand over note from the outgoing chairman, President Umaro Embalo, asked ECOWAS to stand firm on democracy.
According to the president, ECOWAS should not accept any form of coup detat again, saying that democracy though difficult to manage, was the best form of government.
He is expected back home later today.
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Tinubu is the eighth Nigerian leader to be elected chairman of ECOWAS — Buhari headed the bloc twice, as military head of state and then as a democratic president.
The ECOWAS summit in Guinea-Bissau was Tinubu’s first international outing on the African continent since he became Nigerian president on May 29.
He had attended the summit for ‘A New Global Financing Pact’ hosted by Emmanuel Macron, French president, in Paris, France, in June.
ECOWAS was formed in 1975 and currently has 15 member states with a combined population of 387 million and nominal GDP of $816 billion.
The member states are Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.
