A former Vice-President and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the February 25 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, on Sunday, called for a tight security measure in the wake of the withdrawal of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger from the Economic Community of West African States.
Ripples Nigeria reports that the military regimes of the three Sahel countries who have been at loggerheads with ECOWAS over sanctions imposed on them, announced their withdrawal from the regional bloc in a joint statement on Sunday.
With the withdrawal, m8dany believe Nigeria’s fight against terrorism could be affected considering the country borders Niger Republic up north.
