NIGERIA SHUNS ECOWAS-ISRAELI SUMMIT AS NETANYAHU ATTENDS.

Reports has it that Nigeria was intentionally absent from the 51st ECOWAS Summit of Heads of State and Government held in Liberia’s capital Monrovia.

The two day summit, which started on Saturday, was attended by Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. He will be the first non-African leader to ever address an ECOWAS Summit and also the first Israeli leader to visit West Africa since the 1960s.

An attempt by national news portal, Daily Trust, to get details of Nigeria’s decision not to attend the summit which was fruitless.

When contacted, the spokesperson, Ministry of Foreign Affair, Clement Aduku, he confirmed that there were no Nigerian government representatives at the summit but could not give the reason for the country’s absence.

However, a group picture from the summit revealed former President Olusegun Obasanjo and some Biafran observers was at the summit – but not as Nigeria’s representative.