EU AND ECOWAS STORMS NIGERIA: SET TO MEET WITH BUHARI OVER BIAFRA AGITATION AND THE AVENGERS

EU AND ECOWAS STORMS NIGERIA: SET TO MEET WITH BUHARI OVER BIAFRA AGITATION AND THE AVENGERS--Authority

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The leadership of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has concluded plans to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari over the rising wave of militancy in the Niger Delta and the agitations by the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB), it was gathered at the weekend.

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The AUTHORITY gathered that, worried by the deteriorating security situation in the Niger Delta and the Southeast, leaders of the European Union spent the past weeks meeting with opinion leaders from the zones to help their understanding of how best to handle the situation.

Sources close to the meetings told The AUTHORITY that the EU leaders hosted the opinion leaders from the zones to several meetings in Abuja. At one of the meetings, said the source, one speaker from the Niger Delta pointedly accused the EU of fanning the embers of the crises in the zones, and advised the Union to stop “playing the ostrich in Nigeria.”

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