President Bola Tinubu has met with governors from five northern states that share boundaries with Niger Republic.

The governors representing Jigawa, Sokoto, Kebbi, Yobe, and Katsina States, Umar Namadi, Ahmad Aliyu Sokoto, Mohammed Nasir Idris, Mai Mala Buni, and Dikko Umar Radda respectively, met with Tinubu at the State House in Abuja on Sunday, August 6, 2023, on the day the ultimatum issued to coup leaders in the Niger Republic by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) expired.

According to a post on his Twitter page on Sunday evening, presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, disclosed that President Tinubu met the five governors as part of wider consultations on the situation in Niger Republic, but no further details was shared.

Recall that emerging from an extraordinary meeting in Abuja on July 30, 2023, the sub-regional body resolved to impose a wide range of sanctions on the Niger Republic to force a return to constitutional order in the country.