Following the coup in Niger and the seven-day ultimatum given the leaders to release detained President Bazoum to power and quit, the Committee of Chiefs of Defence Staff of ECOWAS will be meeting at the Nigerian Defence Headquarters (DHQ) in Abuja on Wednesday.

Recall that on Sunday, leaders of the Economic Community of West African States imposed sanctions on Niger and issued a warning of the potential use of force on the junta after a one-week ultimatum to restore President Mohamed Bazoum.

Chiefs of Defence Staff of Nigeria, Ghana, the Gambia, Togo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d Ivoire, Cape Verde, Senegal, Benin Republic, Guinea Bissau.

Representatives from Niger, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea-Bissau were absent at the meeting

Also present is the Commissioner for Political Affairs of ECOWAS.