Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have re-elected President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria for a second tenure of one year.
The election took place during their meeting during the 65th Ordinary Summit of the regional Heads of States on Sunday at the State House Conference Centre in Abuja on Sunday.
In his acceptance speech, the President said, “I have accepted to continue to deliver on this service with the great men and women on this democratic journey, to serve our interest and build democratic values on the structure we inherited.”
Tinubu was elected Chairman of the Authority at the 63rd Ordinary Session of the regional bloc held last July in Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau.
The meeting held as the tenure of Tinubu ends as the Chairman of ECOWAS, during the 65th Ordinary Summit of the regional Heads of States.
By its statute books, the meeting would was supposed to elect a new Chairman of the West African regional body, but Tinubu was reelected to steer their affairs for the next one year.
Tinubu’s chairmanship of ECOWAS witnessed coup in Niger Republic, Mali and Burkina Faso just as the three countries have backed out of the regional body and formed a new body.
Efforts by ECOWAS were still ongoing to win them back into the regional bloc, but these had met brick walls zs the President of the Commission, Omar Touray, recently expressing disappointment over Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger’s reluctance to rejoin the regional bloc.
Touray, told the opening ceremony of the 92nd Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers on last week in Abuja, that despite ECOWAS’s efforts to engage the countries, they have not responded positively to their covertures.
