Tinubu inaugurates 6th ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja

Tinubu inaugurates 6th ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja 

President Bola Tinubu on Thursday inaugurated the sixth Legislature of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament in Abuja.
The ECOWAS Parliament is one of the institutions of ECOWAS established by the ECOWAS Treaty of May 28, 1975, signed in Lagos, Nigeria.
The treaty was revised in July 1993 and signed in Abidjan and it is what is currently in use.
In inaugurating the parliament, President Tinubu performed this duty as the current chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of States and Governments.
The inauguration at the International Conference Centre Abuja was attended by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Deputy Senate President.

Other are Senator Barau Jibrin, representatives of parliamentarians of other ECOWAS countries, diplomats and top government officials.
Deputy Senate President Barau and Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (PDP- Kogi Central) were among legislators from the West African sub-region that took their oaths of office as members of the sixth legislature of the ECOWAS parliament during the opening session.

Akpabio transmitted the list of the Nigerian delegation to the President of the ECOWAS Commission and the Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament.
The leader of the Nigerian delegation to the 6th ECOWAS Parliament is the Deputy President of the Senate, Barau Jibrin.

ECOWAS Parliament comprises 115 members, drawn from the 15-member states of which Nigeria is one.

Nigeria has been allotted 35 slots (17 senators and 18 honourable members), followed by Ghana with eight seats. Côte d’Ivoire is has seven seats, while Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Niger, and Senegal have six seats each.

The tenure of office for members is four years beginning from the date of inauguration.