{"id":723761,"date":"2019-10-15T14:34:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T14:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/15\/nigeria-has-breached-ecowas-au-agreement\/"},"modified":"2019-10-15T14:34:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T14:34:01","slug":"nigeria-has-breached-ecowas-au-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/15\/nigeria-has-breached-ecowas-au-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Has Breached ECOWAS, AU Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Former lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani has condemned the closure of Nigerian borders as he states that it implies going against the treaties of AU and Ecowas.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_643144\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-643144\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-643144\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/shehu-sani-reacts-to-buharis-appraisal-of-jonathan.jpg\" alt=\"Shehu Sani\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-643144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Shehu Sani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The former lawmaker explained that the directive to close the border by the federal government violates the protocols of Ecowas and AU.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0Buhari\u2019s Budget On Education Will Only Fund \u2018Edu\u2019 And Leave \u2018Cation\u2019: Shehu Sani<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hence, he expressed that Nigeria has to renegotiate her membership in those organizations or withdraw.<\/p>\n<p>See his post below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Whatever is the economic importance or exigencies of land border closure,it openly violates the Ecowas protocols &amp; stand against d AU AfCFTA agreement we https:\/\/t.co\/WWHXP40Cuh legitimize our act,we must renegotiate our participation or withdraw.For now, we are acting in breach.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Shehu Sani (@ShehuSani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShehuSani\/status\/1184053805794631680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\">October 15, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani has condemned the closure of Nigerian borders as he states that it implies going against the treaties of AU and Ecowas. Senator Shehu Sani The former lawmaker explained that the directive to close the border by the federal government violates the protocols of Ecowas and AU. Also Read:\u00a0Buhari\u2019s Budget On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":705168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria Has Breached ECOWAS, AU Agreement - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/15\/nigeria-has-breached-ecowas-au-agreement\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria Has Breached ECOWAS, AU Agreement - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Former lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani has condemned the closure of Nigerian borders as he states that it implies going against the treaties of AU and Ecowas. 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