President Muhammadu Buhari on
Tuesday received his immediate predecessor in office, Goodluck Jonathan, at the
State House, Abuja.
Jonathan is the ECOWAS Special
Envoy to the Republic of Mali.
He briefed the president on the
political situation in the West African country.
The meeting coincides with the reports of soldiers’ arrest of senior officers in an apparent mutiny.
Buhari and other ECOWAS leaders
had visited Bamako, Mali, last month.
Jonathan, who was in Mali from
Monday to Thursday last week, recounted his meetings with the stakeholders.
They include political and
religious leaders, Ambassadors of US, France, Russia, Germany, European Union.
M5-RFP, the main opposition
group, insists on the resignation of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.
But ECOWAS insists it cannot
order a sitting president to vacate office.
“We told them that no international
organization, including the African Union, United Nations and others, would
agree with their position. We continued to emphasize the need for dialogue,”
Jonathan stressed.
Buhari thanked Jonathan for “the
stamina you have displayed” on the Mali issue.
He counseled further consultations
with the Chairman of ECOWAS, President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger Republic.
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