President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been re-elected for another year as Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS.
The Nigerian leader was re-elected during the 65th Ordinary Session of the Authority, held at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja.
Tinubu also announced the President Bassirou Faye of Senegal, as Special Envoy of the ECOWAS Commission to mediate with the leaders of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger republic announced their exit from the community earlier in the year. According to him, President Faye will run the new task alongside Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar.
In his acceptance speech, Tinubu pledged his continuous work with other elements within the region, sustain democratic values and structures of the community.
