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“Military coups are wrong, as is any tilted civilian political arrangement that perpetuates injustice.”

Source: Address to the UN General Assembly, New York, 19 September 2023

Context Speaking as chairman of the West African bloc ECOWAS, which was then negotiating with Niger's military leaders after the July 2023 coup.

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Bola TinubuNigeria · b. 1952
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