[ 2021-02-04 ]

President re-appointed ECOWAS Chairman

By Ken Sackey

Accra, Feb. 4, GNA - The Authority of Heads of
State and Government of the Economic Community of
West African States (ECOWAS) has re-appointed
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo chairman of
the Bloc.

The Authority, at its extraordinary session held
on Tuesday, February 2, 2021, unamimously agreed
that President Akufo-Addo steers the affairs of
the body for another one-year term, to oversee the
implementation of the institutional reforms aimed
at improving the corporate governance of the
sub-regional body.

President Akufo-Addo was first elected Chairman of
the 15-member economic bloc in September 2020 by
the 57th Ordinary Session of the Authority to
direct its activities for a year.

A communique issued at the end of the meeting said
the Heads of State and Government praised
President Akufo-Addo "for his leadership in
steering the affairs of the Community", and called
on him to, with the support of the Ministerial Ad
hoc Committee on institutional reforms, lead a
reflection on the issues, and submit a report to
Authority's next ordinary session to be held June
2021.

The Authority's Tuesday's Extraordinary Session,
chaired by President Akufo-Addo, was in
preparation for the 34th ordinary Session of the
Assembly of the African Union on the election of
the new management team of the African Union
Commission.

According to the Communique, the Heads of State
and Government Session took note of the memorandum
on the selection of the Chairperson of the African
Union for the 2022-2023 period and the proposed
mechanism for the nomination of countries in
coming years.

The Authorty paid heed also to the Report of the
ECOWAS Council of Ministers on the harmonisation
of Member States' applications for positions in
international organisations, and gave attention to
the Memorandum on the implementation of the ECOWAS
institutional reform.

Fourteen ECOWAS heads of State took part in the
Session, including Roch Marc Christian Kabore of
Burkina Faso, Jorge Carlos de Almeida Fonseca of
the Republic of Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire's
Alassane Ouattara, Ghana's Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo, Prof. Alpha Conde of Guinea, Umaro
Sissoco Embalo of Guinea Bissau, and George Manneh
Weah of Liberia.

The rest are Macky Sall of Senegal, Julius Maada
Bio of Sierra Leone, Togo's Faure Essozimna
Gnassingbe, Yemi Osinbajo, Vice-President of
Nigeria, Brigi Rafini, Prime Minister of the
Republic of Niger, Moctar Ouane, Prime Minister of
Transition of the Republic of Mali, and Aurélien
Agbenonci, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
Republic of Benin.

The session was also attended by Jean-Claude Kassi
Brou, President of ECOWAS Commission.

Source - GNA

... go Back