Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the Economic Community of West African States ECOWAS has done well in rising to the challenges of the region.
Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement in Abuja, said the vice president received a delegation of the ECOWAS Commission led by its new President, Omar Touray, at the Presidential Villa.
The vice president said that ECOWAS had been stepping up to the challenges of upholding democracy, ensuring peace, security and maintaining stability in the region.
Osinbajo said that, as a nation, a people and as a sub-region, member countries of ECOWAS shared so much in common and had the tool required in resolving its problems.
On ECOWAS’s engagement on a global stage, Osinbajo said that it was imperative to reiterate that opinions from the African Continent, especially the regional bloc of West Africa must be heard at all times and considered when decisions were being made.
