GEJ, other ECOWAS leaders head toOuagadougou for crisis talk

Read the State House press release below...
President Goodluck Jonathan will travel
to Ouagadougou tomorrow as a member
of the three-man delegation of Heads of
State and Government raised by the
Economic Community of West African
States (ECOWAS) to facilitate the rapid
resolution of the current political crisis
in Burkina Faso.
Other members of the delegation of ECOWAS
leaders are President Macky Sall of Senegal
and President John Mahama of Ghana who is
the current Chairman of the ECOWAS
Authority of Heads of State and Government.
During their one-day visit to Ouagadougou,
President Jonathan and his Ghanaian and
Senegalese counterparts are expected to meet
with Burkina Faso’s interim Head of State,
Lt.-Col. Isaac Zida, opposition leaders,
members of civil society and other political
stakeholders in the country.
Recent political turmoil in Burkina Faso led
to the resignation of former President Blaise
Compaore and the assumption of power by
Lt.-Col. Zida
The African Union’s democratic charter
requires its 54 member-states to act against
the forceful overthrow of elected governments
on the continent.
The Union has given the Burkina Faso
military an ultimatum to transfer power back
to a civilian administration within two weeks
or face sanctions.
President Jonathan will be accompanied to
Ouagadougou by the Minister of State for
Foreign Affairs, Dr. Nurudeen Mohammed and
some of his principal aides and advisers.
Reuben Abati
Special Adviser to the President
(Media & Publicity)
November 4, 2014