This is not what we voted for and no one should come here and say this is an ipob this or that. I am a Nigerian from the north and I do not support this war for the following reasons.

1. Nigeria has no strategic benefit in invading Niger at this time. Rather the strategic cost are more.
Show me one country we're military intervention worked and I will show you 10 where it failed:
Libya
Yemen
Syria
Iraq
Ukraine
Vietnam
Cambodia
Do we really want to have a wild wild Niger where no real authority is in power, and a heaven for arm dealers, terrorists and a guerrilla resistant movement in our Northern boarder

2. This hastened nature by which is being prosecuted. I still believe dialog can be given a chance and let the sanctions sink in.

3. There is every likelihood this might blow out to be a proxy war with war merchants fueling the conflict with small arms. Currently Mali l, Burkina Faso and I think Guinea are not in support of Ecowas action and have even threatened to exit the commission all together. Given that the economic wellbeing-as the name implies- of its citezens is the primary concern of the commission. Is it wise to fracture the commission because of political differences?