Gambia Crisis: Nigeria not appreciated by AU in peacekeeping role

The just concluded African Union, AU summit ended without a mention of the gallantry role the President Muhammadu Buhari administration and the Nigerian troops played in solving the political imbroglio of the tiny West African nation.

Speakers at the summit took time to appreciate efforts made by Mauritania and Guinea for persuading for President Yahya Jammeh to hand over power to President-Elect Adama Barrow without acknowledging the mediatory roles Nigeria played from the beginning of the crisis to when Jammeh finally agress to handover.

At various meetings held during the Summit, nobody mentioned the efforts Nigeria made to resolve the empasse despite Nigeria’s spending millions of Dollars in moving military personnel and warships to the Gambia, a threat that eventually made Jammeh to leave power.

Despite efforts by Nigeria’s foreign Minister, Godfrey Onyema’s for participants to recognize Nigeria’s role in solving the crisis, AU still did not specifically recognized Nigeria as providing leadership role on the issue.

TheNewsGuru.com can authoritatively report that Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari pulled the final chord that settled the crisis by calling on Mauritanian’s president who is known to be a close friend of Jammeh

TheNewsGuru.com reports that Nigeria footed the logistics bill of the entourage that went to The Gambia from the beginning till when the crisis was successfully resolved.