“COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE!” ECOWAS rejects Niger Junta THREE-year transition plan
ECOWAS rejects Niger Junta THREE-year transition plan to civilian rule terming the offer as ‘Completely Unacceptable’
ECOWAS rejects Niger Junta THREE-year transition plan to civilian rule terming the offer as ‘Completely Unacceptable’
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.
This comes after the Niger Junta, Abdourahamane Tchiani said his government planned to return power back to civilian rulers in the next three years.
“Our ambition is not to confiscate power,” the Head of the military junta, General Abdourahamane Tiani said in a televised address. Any transition of power “would not go beyond three years”, he said.
Speaking on Saturday, Gen Abdourahamane Tchiani said a national dialogue was needed to lay the foundations for a new political order in Niger.
However, the ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, Amb. Abdel-Fatau Musah on Monday stated that the West African bloc will not accept the offer.
“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.
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“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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