Buhari dispatches Obj to Guinea Bissau

In from Victor Ebimomi ….
Nigeria has once again stood up as the biggest brothers’ keeper on the African continent as President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, as Special Envoy to Guinea Bissau to mediate in the political crisis rocking the country.
The country ran into political uncertainty with tension running high across the land since the Prime Minister, Mr Domingos Pereira, and his cabinet were dismissed by President Jose Mario Vaz.
Buhari has expressed serious concern about the unfolding political situation in the country and as such has decided to ‘dispatch’ a special envoy to the West Africa country.
The Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, in a statement in Abuja on Friday stated that Buhari had already sent former President Obasanjo as his Special Envoy to mediate and help find a solution to the crisis brewing in that country.
He added that Obasanjo had already embarked on the first leg of his mission by consulting with the current Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, President Macky Sall of Senegal in Dakar on Thursday.
He also explained that Buhari’s peace mission was in demonstration of true African solidarity and brotherhood but lamented that while the peace efforts were going on; President Sall made a move that worsened the situation.

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“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, ’’he said.
He stated that President Buhari has 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 are being made to resolve the crisis.
He said Buhari particularly urged the leadership in Guinea Bissau, including the military, to ensure respect for constitutional order, sanctity of life and safety of citizens just as he enjoined them to “avoid taking any further action that could threaten the fragile democratic institutions recently established in the country”.

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