Senate Majority Chief Whip, Senator Muhammadu Ndume, has called for the urgent intervention of the four living former military Nigerian heads of state of northern extraction in the resolution of the persisting Niger Republic crisis following the military coup there five months ago.
“We have four former military heads of state that are alive – Buhari, the most-recent, Abdulsalami, Babangida and Gowon, who can intervene. I am assuring you that if this four are given the mandate, with the help of our respected elder statesmen and politicians, the issue of Niger will be resolved,” he stated.
At a media parley in Maiduguri, Saturday evening, Ndume wrote off the ECOWAS-imposed sanctions on the neighbouring francophone country as miscalculated and ineffective.
Ndume described the sanctions as breaching ECOWAS Protocols and International Law.
