President Bola Tinubu returned to Abuja on Monday following a two-day journey to Guinea Bissau for the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Authority of Heads of State and Government.
Tinubu was elected as the next ECOWAS Chairman at the summit, which was the President’s first meeting with the sub-regional body after President Muhammadu Buhari, who previously held the position in 2018.
Tinubu assured the sub-regional leaders that the commission will take democracy seriously under his leadership.
According to Nigeria’s President, democracy is difficult but the best form of government.
The new Chairman of the sub-regional body declared that insecurity and creeping terrorism were stunting the progress and development of the region.
He warned that the threat to peace in the sub-region had reached an alarming proportion with terrorism and an emerging pattern of military takeover that now demand urgent and concerted actions from member states.