Academics and stakeholders have warned that the Economic Community of West African States may cease to exist as a body if it fails to restore democratic rule in the Republic of Niger.
Dr Henry Ogunjewo of the Department of History and Strategic Studies at the University of Lagos said no one knows which country is next if ECOWAS fails to take action.
Ogunjewo also maintained that the military could have explored the option of removing the president without scuttling the democratic rule. A legal practitioner, Habeeb Obadan, said the failure of the African leaders to commit themselves to the effectiveness of the laws that prohibit coup d’etat is the reason the military keeps taking over power.
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