The Muslim human rights advocacy group, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has cautioned President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s planned military intervention in Niger Republic.
Reacting on Saturday to the President’s request to the Senate to implement a resolution of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Niger Republic, MURIC’s Kano State chairman, Hassan Indabawa said that the group believed that war is not an option in resolving the crisis.
According to MURIC, Niger Republic and Northern Nigeria have unbreakable cultural afflictions, hence the military option would spell doom for both countries.
“Military action should never be an option in solving the problem of change of government in the Niger Republic due to the current and historical relationship between Niger and Nigeria, two brotherly neighbours in West Africa. Relations between the two countries are based on a long shared border and common cultural and historical interactions”, the statement read.
Following a failed diplomatic talks, led by ECOWAS, the Niger Republic junta cut ties with Nigeria.
Last Friday, the Senate President Godswill Akpabio read President Tinubu’s request at the plenary seeking a military intervention in Niger.
However, the request attracted mixed reactions from Nigerians.
On 26th July, a military junta replaced Niger’s democratically elected government of President Mohamed Bazoum.
Consequently, ECOWAS, France, and the US called for the return to democracy in the region.
