Tuesday saw the arrival at the Aso Rock Villa of the presidents of Benin, Niger, and Guinea-Bissau to meet with Bola Tinubu of Nigeria. Presidents Umaro Embaló of Guinea-Bissau, Mohamed Bazoum of Niger, and Patrice Talon of Benin were welcomed by Tinubu at the front yard of the Presidential Villa in Abuja.Soon after, he took the leaders of West Africa into his office for a private meeting.

The meeting on Tuesday is only nine days after President Tinubu took over as chairman of the Authority of Heads of State of the Economic Community of West African States, albeit the precise agenda has not yet been made public.

The leaders are anticipated to talk about the sub-region’s economic growth and security.Tinubu is probably going to restate his position on upholding democracy in the subregion given the spate of coups in recent years.

An attempted coup had been thwarted in Guinea-Bissau in February 2022. However, between 2019 and 2022, the civilian administrations of Guinea, Mali, and Burkina Faso were overthrown.