The Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has condemned Wednesday’s detention of the Interim President, the Prime Minister and other ministers of the transitional government of Burkina Faso in an apparent coup d’etat.
President Buhari, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, said that Nigeria aligns with ECOWAS, the African Union and the United Nations “in rejecting the brazen contravention of the constitution and transitional charter of Burkina Faso by elements of the Presidential Guard under the leadership of General Gilbert Diendere.