Group hails ECOWAS over decision to reject recent military coup in Niger

A civil society group, Committee for the Protection of Peoples Mandate (CPPM), has lauded the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for it’s bold decision in rejecting the unconstitutional seizure of political power in Niger Republic and the imposition of sanctions on the military rulers to vacate office within one week.

CPPM, with focus on sustenance of democracy and the rule of law, gave this backing in a press statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its Executive Director, Comrade Nelson Ekujumi, even as it also commended the African Union (AU), the American and French governments and all lovers of democracy globally, who had sided with the people of Niger Republic in rejecting the treasonable act of the coupists and demanded an immediate restoration of democratic rule to the country.

The pro- democracy group said the global condemnation and rejection of the illegal seizure of power and the demand for immediate restoration of democratic governance in Niger Republic was heartwarming and a testament of the irrevocable commitment of the world to democracy, adding that it was a warning signal to coupists and their sponsors, that the business of seizing political power through the barrels of the gun would no longer be tolerated.

“The global condemnation and rejection of the illegal seizure of power and the demand for immediate restoration of democratic governance in Niger Republic is heartwarming and a testament of the irrevocable commitment of the world to democracy and a warning to coupists and their sponsors, that the business of seizing political power through the barrels of the gun will no longer be tolerated,” the group said.

CPPM asserted that the decision of ECOWAS to give the coupists one week to vacate power was a commendable and civilized move to enable the power usurpers to negotiate their way out of office and starve off the global political embarrassment they had subjected not only the people of Niger to, but the African continent and the black race as a whole.

It then called on ECOWAS leadership not to hesitate to give the military coupists in Niger, the Yahya Jammeh of Gambia treatment of 2017 at the expiration of it’s one week ultimatum as, according to the civil society group, the whole world is solidly behind any means necessary to immediately return Niger Republic to constitutionalism and the rule of law, rather than the rule of the gun.

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