Nigeria - Guarding Against a Military Intervention in Niger,... PremiumTimesng: WestAfrica
President Bola Tinubu with former Nigerian Head of State General Abdulsalami Abubakar and the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar, who the president appointed to negotiate with the military junta in Niger.In consideration of our own national interest, a military intervention must be an absolutely last option for Nigeria, given our own present domestic fragility.
A military intervention in Niger would be resisted and considered by the new military junta there as an invasion and it may be backed by Russia/China, Mali and Burkina Faso. It could get very messy and protracted, despite how small and militarily weak Niger appears at first sight, in comparison to Nigeria and a combined ECOWAS military force.
Niger and the coup there, along with developments in other Sahel countries such as Mali and Burkina Faso, are part of a global power game of chess. It looks like a second scramble for Africa is taking place. In international relations, wise nations weigh their national interests side-by-side their collective multilateral obligations.
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