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COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE, ECOWAS REJECTS JUNTA’S THREE-YEAR TRANSITION PLAN
The Economic Community of West African States has rejected the Niger junta’s objective for a transition of power presumably to a democratic government within three years.
“Our ambition is not to confiscate power,” General Abdourahamane Tiani said in a televised address. Any transition of power “would not go beyond three years”, he said.
Responding to that, the ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, Amb. Abdel-Fatau Musah, in a live appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today Monday, stated that the West African bloc refused to accept it.
“This offer is completely unacceptable and ECOWAS insists on the restoration of constitutional order as quickly as possible,” he said, arguing that the commission had the experience of “these cat-and-mouse games with these military regimes”.
Musah cited the creation of Niger’s “new” constitution in 2010, which he said was revised in 2017.
“What dramatic change do you need in the governance architecture of the country to require three years to experiment with something else? This is like subterfuge to throw ECOWAS off-course and then do whatever they want,” he said.
“In some other countries under the military regime in West Africa, they had about three years, and already they are ‘negotiating’ with their population to have another 18 months. Even a democratically elected president in Nigeria has only four years to run.
“So, what legitimacy do they have to already begin with three years? And we know it is not going to end there.”
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