President Muhammadu Buhari will consult with key leaders of ECOWAS countries in order to find a solution to the crisis rocking Republic of Mali.
The President made the pledge while receiving reports from ECOWAS Special Envoy to Mali, former President Goodluck Jonathan.
The former President was at State House, Abuja, in company of President of ECOWAS Commission, Mr Jean-Claude Kassi Brou.
President Buhari said they ask the President of Niger, who is the Chairman of ECOWAS to brief them as a group, and they will then know the way forward.
He thanked Dr Jonathan for his comprehensive brief on the situation in Mali
Former president Jonathan had filled in President Buhari on his activities as Special Envoy to restore amity to Mali, rocked by protests against President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who has spent two out of the five years second term in office.
A resistance group, M5, is insisting that the Constitutional Court must be dissolved, and the President resign, before peace can return to the country.
Crisis had erupted after the court nullified results of 31 parliamentary seats in the polls held recently, awarding victory to some other contenders, which the resistance group said was at the instigation of President Keita.
Riots on July 10 had led to the killing of some protesters by security agents, causing the crisis to spiral out of control, hence the intervention by ECOWAS.
The former President thanked President Buhari for providing a Presidential jet for the mission, “thus making their trips convenient and comfortable,” and he equally expressed appreciation for the Itakpe-Warri railway complex named after him last weekend.
Bello Wakili
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