President Bola Tinubu was elected Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States Authority of the Heads of State and Government over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Tinubu, who attended the forum of West African leaders for the first time at the 63rd Ordinary Session was formally elected as the Chairman in Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau.<\/span><\/p>\n Tinubu succeeded President Umaro Sissoco Embal\u00f3 of Guinea-Bissau as the leader of the sub-regional political and economic body.<\/span><\/p>\n He will be responsible for guiding the ECOWAS member states toward economic growth, political stability, and cooperation in his capacity as chairman.<\/span><\/p>\n However, Tinubu is not the first Nigerian president to emerge as chairman of the sub-regional African body.<\/span><\/p>\n Here is a list of Nigerian Presidents who have chaired ECOWAS and the period they led the body:<\/span><\/p>\n 1: Sani Abacha \u2013 (27 July 1996 \u2013 8 June 1998)<\/span><\/p>\n 2: Abdulsalami Abubakar \u2013 (9 June 1998 \u2013 1999)<\/span><\/p>\n 3: Umaru Musa Yar\u2019Adua \u2013 (19 December 2008 \u2013 18 February 2010)<\/span><\/p>\n 4: Goodluck Jonathan \u2013 (18 February 2010 \u2013 17 February 2012)<\/span><\/p>\n 5: Muhammadu Buhari \u2013 (31 July 2018 \u2013 29 June 2019)<\/span><\/p>\n 6: Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Nigeria (9 July 2023 till date).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Bola Tinubu was elected Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States Authority of the Heads of State and Government over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1400,7245,7042],"class_list":["post-14290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ecowas","tag-nigerian-presidents","tag-president-bola-ahmed-tinubu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14291,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14290\/revisions\/14291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}