Nasir el-Rufai, former governor of Kaduna State, has warned the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) against military action in Niger Republic.
Any military intervention within the sub-region, he said, would be a fight between brothers.
ECOWAS has stated that it will use force as a last resort if the coup leaders in Niger do not hand over control to ousted President Mohamed Bazoum.
The bloc’s defense leaders announced last Thursday in Accra, Ghana’s capital city, that the activation of its standby force in Niger had begun.
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Although the defence chiefs had backed calls for dialogue as a mediation tactic, the group said all elements that would go into any military intervention had been worked out and were being refined.
Reacting to ECOWAS’ plans, El-Rufai on Tuesday tweeted, “As ECOWAS beats the drums of war, I recall the 1970s rock classic by Dire Straits – ‘Brothers in Arms’, because a war within our subregion is a war between brothers.”
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