The president has been in custody since a junta took control in Niger earlier this year.
Minister Tuggar, speaking to Channels Television on the sidelines of the United Nations Climate Conference in Dubai, stated Nigeria’s pivotal role in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) bloc and assured that the nation would persist in its efforts to secure President Bazoum’s freedom.
“We have made it clear, we spelled it out. We are asking them to release President Bazoum so that he will be allowed to leave Niger. He will no longer be in custody. He will go to a third country that is mutually agreed upon. And then we start talking about the removal of sanctions,” the minister asserted.
