BREAKING: Tinubu Re-Elected ECOWAS Chairman

Chairperson of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and President of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, reacts while addressing the ECOWAS head of states and government in Abuja on July 30, 2023. West African leaders were to meet on Sunday for a crisis summit on the coup in Niger, where protesters tried to storm the French embassy after the junta warned of an "imminent military intervention". In the third coup to fell a leader in Africa's restive Sahel region in as many years, Niger's elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, has been held by the military since Wednesday. (Photo by Kola SULAIMON / AFP) (Photo by KOLA SULAIMON/AFP via Getty Images)

President Bola Tinubu has secured another one-year term as Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of States and Government.

Tinubu, whose first tenure elapses July 9, 2024, was elected by a unanimous decision of fellow Heads of Government at the 65th Ordinary Session of the Authority held at the State House, Abuja, on Sunday.

The President said in his acceptance speech, “I have accepted to continue to deliver on this service with the great men and women on this democratic journey, to serve our interest and build democratic values on the structure we inherited.”

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Tinubu was elected Chairman of the Authority at the 63rd Ordinary Session of the regional bloc held last July in Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau.

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