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VP OSINBAJO TO REPRESENT NIGERIA AT ECOWAS MEETING IN ACCRA CONCERNING SITUATION IN GUINEA

President Muhammadu Buhari would be represented by his deputy, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, at the 2nd Extraordinary  Summit of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government on the political situation in the Republic of Guinea today.

Prof. Osinbajo had participated last week at the previous ECOWAS Extraordinary Summit on the political situation in Guinea and Mali. That meeting was held virtually on the 8th of September.

The Authority decided then that Guinea be immediately suspended from all ECOWAS governing bodies and statutory meetings. ECOWAS leaders had also called for the immediate and unconditional release of President Alpha Conde and other arrested persons; demanded the immediate return of Guinea to constitutional order; and decided to immediately dispatch a high-level ECOWAS mission to Guinea to assess the situation.

The physical meeting taking place today will review the situation in Guinea in light of the report of the ECOWAS high-level mission to Conakry.


The Vice President who leaves Abuja this morning would be accompanied by the Foreign Affairs Minister of State, Ambassador Zubairu Dada and is expected back in Abuja later today.

'Laolu Akande
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity
Office of the Vice President
16th September 2021

It would have been a grea thing if we had Osinbajo for President and Zulum Vice or Umahi as president and Zulum his Vice but regrettably Jonathan and Zulum will be the next President resident and Vice President of Nigeria respectively. Living Umahi as HM., Ministry of Works, Housing and Urban Development. After Jonathan's four years are over, power moves back to the north and then Zulum and Umahi. Tinubu's candidate is Umahi.