President Goodluck Jonathan travelled to Ouagadougou yesterday as a member of the three-man delegation of Heads of State and Government raised by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to facilitate the rapid resolution of the current political crisis in Burkina Faso.
Other members of the delegation
of ECOWAS leaders are President Macky Sall of Senegal and President John Mahama
of Ghana who is the current Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State
and Government.
During their one-day visit to Ouagadougou,
President Jonathan and his Ghanaian and Senegalese counterparts are expected to
meet with Burkina Faso’s interim Head of State, Lt.-Col. Isaac Zida, opposition
leaders, members of civil society and other political stakeholders in the
country.
Recent political turmoil in Burkina
Faso led to the resignation of former President Blaise Compaore and the
assumption of power by Lt.-Col. Zida
The African Union’s democratic charter requires
its 54 member-states to act against the forceful overthrow of elected
governments on the continent.
The Union has given the Burkina Faso military an
ultimatum to transfer power back to a civilian administration within two weeks
or face sanctions.
President Jonathan will be
accompanied to Ouagadougou by the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr.
Nurudeen Mohammed and some of his principal aides and advisers.
Reuben
Abati
Special
Adviser to the President
(Media
& Publicity)
November
4, 2014
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