{"id":16903,"date":"2024-02-13T10:02:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T10:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/niger-coup-leader-vows-not-to-return-to-ecowas\/"},"modified":"2024-02-13T10:02:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T10:02:30","slug":"niger-coup-leader-vows-not-to-return-to-ecowas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/niger-coup-leader-vows-not-to-return-to-ecowas\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger coup leader vows not to return to ECOWAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The head of military junta in Niger Republic, General Abdourahamane Tchiani, has vowed that none of the three Sahel countries would rejoin the regional bloc, Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS.<\/p>\n<p>Tchiani made the vow in an interview he granted to RTN news channel in the country\u2019s capital Niamey on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that the military regimes in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, on January 28 announced their immediate withdrawal from ECOWAS.<\/p>\n<p>However, during the withdrawal threat, the leaders of the three Sahel nations issued a statement, saying it was a \u201csovereign decision\u201d to leave the group \u201cwithout delay\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust because we are members of the bloc, food and medicine supply was cut off. Power was also cut off and our own funds have been freezed. So, we consulted our friends in the Sahel on exiting the bloc to better the life of our citizens. That we should withdraw from the bloc that is answerable to the foreign countries. So, we have withdrawn our membership from the bloc and would never return to the union,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>While responding to the consequences of its withdrawal on security, trade and socio-economic activities, he said, \u201cNow the world is a global village and is the world within ECOWAS? So, God will feed every human He created.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would never release Bazoum. Setting Bazoum free is akin to stabbing ourselves in the stomach which would do harm to Nigeriens,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Niger coup leader vows not to return to ECOWAS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of military junta in Niger Republic, General Abdourahamane Tchiani, has vowed that none of the three Sahel countries&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4990,15,1282],"tags":[4992,180,1283],"class_list":["post-16903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecowas","category-news","category-niger","tag-ecowas","tag-news","tag-niger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}