The Federal Government on Wednesday condemned Tuesday coup d’état in Mali by mutineering soldiers.

The PUNCH had earlier reported that rebel soldiers took President Ibrahim Keita and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse into custody on Tuesday afternoon and drove the pair to a military base on the outskirts of Bamako, which they had seized that morning.

Keita, whose government had been beset by months of protests over economic stagnation, corruption and a brutal Islamist insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives, later announced early Wednesday that he had resigned to avoid “bloodshed”.

“If it pleased certain elements of our military to decide this should end with their intervention, do I really have a choice?” he said of the day’s events.(I must) submit to it, because I don’t want any bloodshed,” the ousted 75-year-old president said in a television broadcast.

The coup’s leaders appeared on television hours later to pledge a political transition and new elections within a “reasonable time”. Malian Air Force deputy Chief of Staff, Ismael Wague, said he and his fellow officers had “decided to take responsibility in front of the people and of history”.

Reacting on Wednesday, Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, tweeted, “The Nigerian Government unequivocally condemns the coup d’état that took place in Mali yesterday and demands the immediate and unconditional restoration of constitutional order. We welcome the urgent activation of the ECOWAS Standby force.”

Nigeria’s President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), alongside some ECOWAS leaders, had in July travelled to Bamako on a peace-keeping mission but the meeting with the protest leader, Imam Dicko, ended in a stalemate.

Meanwhile, the Economic Community of West African States also condemned the coup, pledging to close land and air borders to Mali and push for sanctions against “all the putschists and their partners and collaborators”.

The 15-nation bloc which includes Mali also said that it would suspend the country from its internal decision-making bodies.

UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, demanded the “immediate and unconditional release” of Keita and Cisse as diplomats in New York said the Security Council would hold emergency talks on Wednesday.

The United States and France also released separate statements voicing deep concern about the turn of events and urged against regime change.

French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the mutiny, according to his office, and said he supported mediation efforts to resolve the crisis by other West African states.

The US envoy to the region, Peter Pham, joined the calls for restraint and echoed its opposition to any “extraconstitutional” change.

Jubilant crowds have, however, gathered in the capital to cheer the rebels as they take over the government of the Sahelian nation.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/fg-condemns-mali-coup-demands-return-to-constitutional-order/%3famp=1

Lol

I support the federal government on this

Nigeria needs the kind of Mali revolution because nobody from any sane society should endure what our leaders are putting us through, it's so bad that basic rights are luxuries here and hardship is the norm.But I wonder what our deal breaker really is here

Lol... Like they responded against Ghana

Humn! So says a coup plotter.As if Nigeria itself is practicing democracy. Remove the beam in your own eyes first.

Racoon:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/fg-condemns-mali-coup-demands-return-to-constitutional-order/%3famp=1

hmm

coup na old stuff,,na correct beating go happen for Nigeria soon,,dat idiot call boohhaaarrii maybe na me go still use 2by2 on his head soon,can't wait till that day lord

"....It is unfortunate that the Buhari administration is sending security forces not after those who commit acts of grand corruption and appalling abuses, but after those who call for human rights and rule of law reforms.

For example, while his administration treats protesters with overt hostility, it seems to revere ‘repentant Boko Haram militants’, including by granting them “amnesty” and accepting them “unconditionally”.

https://dailypost.ng/2020/08/15/kolawole-olaniyan-buharis-hostility-to-human-rights/

“The hope of escaping with impunity is the greatest incentive to vice.”-(Cicero)

“As soon as it is possible to disobey with impunity, disobedience is legitimate."-(Jean-Jacques Rousseau).

Nothing wey Westlife no go see for Empty Street.

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bff

Just like our presidio once did...

May God punish dis FG people,una Never sort naija matter ,u dey demand nonsense.oloriburuku pple

look at whose talking, if majority of their people are happy about it that's all that matters. the hipocracy In this country stinks to the high heavens.

FG of Nigeria...this is none of your business.

We Nigerians condemn the killings in Kaduna, Katsina, Zamfara and everywhere in the country.

We condemn the corruption, the insecurities of life, the police and SARS daily harassment.

We condemn lack of jobs, sufferings, bad road, no water, no light.

The MALI people support what their military did, so what's our FG headache

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Good

Which of the government, is it the tyrannical one that we have or is there another one?

Even the Malians will be disappointed that this is coming from a country whose government clamps down on people for expressing themselves

Someone should advise the FG not to meddle.

Racoon:
Humn! As if Nigeria itself is practicing democracy. Remove the beam in your own eyes first.

what are they practicing if it's not democracy?
Dumbo

Nigerian Govt is useless you are condemning what happened in Mali when your home is a disaster

He is talking, you had better change your ways before you experience same.

How exactly did we become the giant of Africa?

If only the youths are not watching BBN

Marlians come forward the rest F*ck off...

Why not Condemn BOKO HARAM if na by condemn
Paper govt

Ok, our government is putting mouth in the affairs of the Malians when they have long lost their voice in matters concerning Nigeria.

Anyway, in other new, currently Jehovah, Allah and other unrepentant religious gods have been in the Spiritual Cage where the gods of science have subjected them to for almost four years now as the Age of Aquarius continue to enter fully into Universal Consciousness. Peace of mind to the world.

Nigeria on my mind.....................

Hiss... Shioor... FG must react like bomb... If there is coup in Nigeria most people will be happy because they are tired of Buharideen. Some people will even prefer Lucifer to rule Nigeria instead of Buharideen

Malians ti takeover

The person who spewed that trash needs to be get his head, house and country examined.

No one should quote me, am hungry, tired, pissed on third mainland traffic.