Apparently worried by the brewing crisis in Guinea Bissau, President,
Muhammadu Buhari, has sent former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, as his
Special Envoy, to mediate and help find a solution to current challenge
of the West African nation.
Apparently worried by the brewing crisis in Guinea Bissau, President,
Muhammadu Buhari, has sent former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, as his
Special Envoy, to mediate and help find a solution to current challenge
of the West African nation.
Following the dismissal of Guinea Bissau’s Prime Minister, Mr
Domingos Simoes Pereira and his cabinet by President Jose Mario Vaz,
President Buhari had raised concern over the unfolding political
situation in the country.
According to a statement by the Special Adviser on Media and
Publicity to President Buhari, Femi Adesina, former President Obasanjo
embarked on the first leg of his mission by consulting with the current
Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States Authority of
Heads of State and Government, President Macky Sall of Senegal in Dakar
on Thursday.
“It is regrettable that while Chief Obasanjo was still consulting
with President Sall, President Jose Mario Vaz of Guinea Bissau proceeded
to appoint and swear-in a new Prime Minister in the person of Mr Baciro
Dja, a development that has worsened the political situation in his
country,” President Buhari said.
He further appealed for calm and called on the leadership in Guinea
Bissau to exercise utmost restraint and ensure the maintenance of law
and order as efforts continue to resolve the current crisis.
Guinea Bissau is a country of 1.8 million people. It’s ranked the
151st most populous nation in the world and 45th in Africa, according to
a Washington-based organisation, Population Reference Bureau (PRB).
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