Buhari, others demand quick resolution of Togo impasse

President Muhammadu Buhari and five other concerned West African leaders have called for an immediate roadmap to pave the way for negotiations between the Togolese government and the opposition movement.

The leaders’ demand came at a meeting to discuss the situation in Togo, which ended early hours on Thursday in Abidjan, on the sidelines of the African Union-European Union Summit.

A statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Garba Shehu, said the Presidents of Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Benin Republic and Guinea attended the meeting with President Faure Gnassingbe  Eyadema.

The West African leaders asked the parties in Togo to urgently negotiate, without ‘‘any preconditions’’ and resolve the impasse in the interest of the country and the region at large.

President Eyadema had given himself a deadline of Friday to provide the basis and framework for negotiations in response to the increasing list of demands put together by the opposition movement seeking to oust him from power after 12 years as President.

His father, Gnassingbé Eyadéma, was the President of the tiny West African nation from 1967 until his death in 2005.

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