ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – The United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has commended President Bola Tinubu’s leadership of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for its efforts towards the restoration of constitutional order in Republic of Niger.
In a post on his handle on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Monday, Blinken applauded President Tinubu’s ECOWAS leadership, describing it as shared efforts with the U.S. to wrestle power from the junta in Niger.
Blinken wrote: “Spoke to Nigerian President Tinubu to commend his leadership of the Economic Community of West African States and discussed shared efforts to restore constitutional order in Niger.”
France and the US have been accused of using President Tinubu-led ECOWAS to wage a proxy war in Niger. SaharaReporters had reported that the National Observatory (NO) urged the Nigerian Government and ECOWAS not to allow themselves to be drawn into such a proxy war.
The group asked the Nigerian government and Tinubu-led ECOWAS to reflect deeply on the permanent interests of their citizens, the survival of the African people, the sub-region and continent in finding solutions to the threats of anti-democratic marauding forces in Africa.
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According to them, genuine peoples’ democracy remains a better path to development over any military regime – be it benevolence or autocratic, stressing that democracy must necessarily deliver on good governance and assure prosperity for the citizens if it must be defended.
Meanwhile, some Twitter users who reacted to Blinken’s tweet described the US as another proxy.
They said that Blinken should mind his business instead of pushing President Tinubu and ECOWAS into a war with Niger.
One of such tweets was by EPIPHANY THE FIRST ✝️ (@Kittyprincezam2) who wrote: “Blinken can you mind the USA 🇺🇸 business only? Your people are going nuts,cr@zy smoking shits that d*stroys them and you think Africa is where your interest lies?”