Niger Republic coup leader, General Abdourahmane Tchiani has agreed to dialogue with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) after his meeting with Nigerian Islamic scholars led by the national leader of Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa Iqamatus Sunnah (JIBWIS), Sheikh Abdullahi Bala Lau in Niger Republic.

According to Niger Republic’s Prime Minister, Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine, General Tchiani gave the green light for talks with ECOWAS and was optimistic the talks with ECOWAS would take place in the next few days.

“We have agreed and the leader of our country has given the green light for dialogue. They will now go back and inform the Nigerian President what they have heard from us. we hope in the coming days, they (ECOWAS) will come here to meet us to discuss how the sanctions imposed against us will be lifted,’’ he said.

Nigeria’s Intervention Team, which included notable Islamic scholars from the country, met with the coup leaders in Niger over the weekend, and all parties decided to strengthen the option of dialogue in resolving the country’s political problem.

The Islamic Ulammas led by Sheik Bala Lau met with General Abdourahmane Tchiani for several hours in Niger’s capital Niamey during which they deliberated on all the issues including the demand by ECOWAS leaders that former President Bazoum be reinstated.

Bala Lau, who is the National Chairman of Jamatul Izalatu Bida Waikamatu Sunnah, said the clerics were in Niger on behalf of President Bola Tinubu who accepted their request to intervene.

Sheik Lau said the team had earlier told President Tinubu who is also the Chairman of Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government that their position is that the political impasse in Niger is resolved through dialogue.

He, therefore, told General Tchiani that the visit to Niger was to engage in constructive dialogue to encourage him and other military leaders behind the coup to toe the path of peace instead of war to resolve the crisis. Responding, General Tchiani who accorded the team warm reception welcomed their intervention. He said their doors were open to explore diplomacy and peace in resolving the matter.

General Tchiani, however, said it was painful to the coup leaders that the ECOWAS leaders did not hear their side of the matter before issuing ultimatum to them to quit office.

He claimed the coup was well intended, stating that they struck to starve off an imminent threat that would have affected not only Niger Republic but also Nigeria.

He also apologised for not according the team sent by President Tinubu led by former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd) the required attention because they were angry about the ECOWAS ultimatum.

While tracing the historical ties between the two nations, he said Niger Republic and Nigeria were not only neighbours but brothers and sisters who should resolve issues amicably.

Speaking with journalists in Niamey after the meeting, another member of the intervention team and Chief Missioner of Ansarudeen Society of Nigeria, Sheik Ahmad Abdulrahman, said contrary to reports in some sections of the media, the team was well received by General Tchiani and both parties had fruitful discussions.

“We will now go back home and report to President Tinubu what we have discussed and press it on him that war is not an option in resolving the matter.

“We believe that war is an ill wind that will not blow any good and that peaceful resolution should prevail.”

The team comprised scholars from various Islamic sects in the country. Among them were Sheik Kabiru Gombe-Secretary, Jamatul izalatul bida waikamatul sunnah, Sheik Yakubu Musa Hassan Katsina-Director Daawah, JIBWIS, Sheik Ibrahim Dahiru Bauchi- Rep Sheik Ibrahim Bauchi and Dr Khalid Aliya- Secretary General, Jammatul Nasril Islam. Others included Sheik Karibullah Nasiru Kabara- Leader Khadriya Group Nigeria, Sheik Ahmad Abdurahman, Professor Salisu Sheri- Deputy Secretary-General Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Sheik Nasiru Abdul Muhayuid- Director Admin, JIBWIS Jos, Professor Mansur Sokoto, and Alhaji Mele Kyari.

https://von.gov.ng/niger-coup-leaders-nigerian-intervention-team-embrace-dialogue/

https://thenationonlineng.net/just-in-niger-coup-leader-okays-dialogue-with-ecowas/

He also apologised for not according the team sent by President Tinubu led by former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd) the required attention because they were angry about the ECOWAS ultimatum.

Biodun556:
Thanks to president Tinubu

Omoawoke:
Are they scared

aderadio1:
Lol ECOWAS is finally divided. Anybody can see us anyhow now.

I wait confirmation from ECOWAS HQ before I believe this.

In Lima, Peru, Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori orders a commando assault on the Japanese ambassador’s home, hoping to free 72 hostages held for more than four months by armed members of the Tupac Amaru leftist rebel movement.

On December 16, 1996, 14 Tupac Amaru terrorists, disguised as waiters and caterers, slipped into the home of Japanese Ambassador Morihisa Aoki, where a reception honoring the birthday of the Japanese emperor was being held. The armed terrorists took 490 people hostage. Police promptly surrounded the compound, and the rebels agreed to release 170 women and elderly guests but declared they would kill the remaining 220 if their demands were not met.

The Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) was founded in 1984 as a militant organization dedicated to communist revolution in Peru. A few days after the hostage crisis at the Japanese ambassador’s home began, the rebels released all but 72 hostages and demanded the release of 400 MRTA members imprisoned in Peru. Among the important officials held hostage in the Japanese ambassador’s home were the brother of President Fujimori, Foreign Minister Francisco Tudela; supreme court judges; members of the ruling party; and a number of foreign ambassadors from Japan and elsewhere. President Fujimori, who was known for taking a hard-line stance against leftist guerrillas in Peru, did not give in to the key points of the rebels’ demands and in April 1997 ordered an assault on the complex by a 140-man special forces team.

After secretly warning the hostages 10 minutes before the attack, the special forces team set off a blast in a tunnel underneath the building, which surprised the rebels and killed eight of the 14 immediately. The rest of the elite soldiers attacked from several other directions, overwhelming the remaining terrorists. All 14 rebels were killed in the assault, including the leader, Nestor Cerpa, who was shot multiple times. Only one hostage, Supreme Court Justice Carlos Giusti, was killed in the attack, and of the several soldiers wounded during the rescue operation, two later died from their injuries.
Source: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fujimori-orders-assault-on-japanese-ambassadors-home

Zxcvbnmghtr:


May this government continue to favour me and my family and yours too. Tinubu is a blessing to humanity.

ECOWAS is able to achieve this because the man in charge is a PRAGMATIC leader.

The irony now is, this is bad news to the same set of people who have been shouting that Tinubu wants to go to war at all cost.

They won't be happy about this good news.

RuggedBiafran:
Coward...

From Pushing Propaganda that there was a coup plot against Tinubu
From claiming that Tinubu will Crush NIGER Republic
From Claiming that the North cant dictate to Tinubu on how to facilitate democracy In NIGER Republic
From Pushing propaganda claiming that Tinubu as ECOWAS chairman was a strategist
From cutting electricity to them

Now a certified Tinubu mizcreant is happy that dialogue is now touted as a solution, when they noticed that people are very much against Military action against a Country that decided to sanitize their system. Anybody working with people from that region as partners is like "leaving" fish with a rat. The betrayal is genetic and they are shamelessly proud of that, and claim its sophistication.

NIGER REPUBLIC should connect directly to Algeria for light and also make sure they DAM that RIVER NIGER...

Yoruba people always "reactionary" never pragmatic...
Useless Chest beating COWARDs...spits

Acekidc4:
E be like say their Brain travel before🤨🤨

QuotaSystem:
The initial threats and needless ultimatum complicated what could have been resolved earlier and more easily. We were talking at each other, instead of talking with each other.

Thankfully, wisdom and reason have prevailed and peaceful routes to resolution are now the only cards on the table. The sick dreams of ipob terrorists and other selfish & insensitive war mongers have been prematurely terminated.

Kudos to President Tinubu.
Kudos to the Northern political & religious leaders.
#DiplomacyFirst

ElSudani:
There's not going to be any war. Obidients will be so disappointed by this news.

GeneralPula:

As in ehh..

They’ve been singing *war war war* just like the Biafra or death talk..

Dennisbulkan:
Why not let a sovereign Niger determine the course of of its own people the same way we all let their few currupt elites plunged them into poverty & misery without interference? It might be more productive to focus on addressing the significant issue of corruption that has plagued your own nation/Africa for decades. Who assigned the role of democracy's overseer to you, especially when challenges of self-sufficiency exist?

The readiness of Blackman to collaborate with white colonialists to the detriment of their fellow Black individuals remains puzzling.
Similar to the slavery era, when ruling classes manipulated the vulnerable to capture and sell their own kind, the current scenario involves resistance from a brother nation seeking freedom from exploitation by corrupt elites.
This conflict arises as the majority suffers in poverty. If democracy fails to help them, perhaps it's not the solution.

In Nigeria, I've personally witnessed people compelled to vote for a candidate in exchange for a meager 2k due to their dire circumstances. In impoverished countries, democracy can appear as a scheme of the corrupt elites, utilizing hunger and poverty to control the masses.

According to Niger Republic's Prime Minister, Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine, General Tchiani gave the green light for talks with ECOWAS and was optimistic the talks with ECOWAS would take place in the next few days.

‘’We have agreed and the leader of our country has given the green light for dialogue. They will now go back and inform the Nigerian President what they have heard from us.... we hope in the coming days, they (ECOWAS) will come here to meet us to discuss how the sanctions imposed against us will be lifted,’’ he said.

RuggedBiafran:

NIGER REPUBLIC should connect directly to Algeria for light and also make sure they DAM that RIVER NIGER...

Yoruba people always "reactionary" never pragmatic...
Useless Chest beating COWARDs...spits[/b]

Guyman01:
If this coup had happened in a country that shares borders with South West or South East for instance these same northern Ulamas would have been in the forefront to promote war because the unity of Nigeria is not 'negotiable' and democracy must be restored same way Yoruba Muslims are encouraging Tinubu to scatter Niger.
Instead of envoys Tinubu is now sending Muslim Clerics to save face because he was too fast to talk about the coup threatening military force before weighing his words.
Now Tinubu is dividing ECOWAS at behest og France

Acekidc4:
Watch how Obidient and Ipob Miscreants will start Convulsing with hatred Now 🤔🤨

Diplomacy is Key!!