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Chad’ll return to democratic rule in 18 months, Itno assures Buhari Mustapha Temidayo
The Chadian Transitional Military Council has reassured the global community that the country would be returned to civilian rule within 18 months.
This was just as President Muhammadu Buhari assured of Nigeria’s readiness to assist the Chad Republic in its transition programme to return the country to constitutional rule within the set target period.
According to a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, the President spoke yesterday at State House, Abuja while hosting Lt. Gen. Mahamat Idris Deby Itno in the Presidential Villa.
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President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, met with Chad’s interim President, Lt. Gen. Mahamat Idris Deby at the State House in Abuja.
At the meeting, the Chadian Transitional Military Council reassured the global community that the country would return to civilian rule within 18 months.
The Street Journal had earlier reported that Marshal Idris Deby Itno, the late President of the country, died while leading troops to confront insurgents, who had come in through Libya.
In a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, Buhari was quoted as saying:
“We are bound together by culture and geography, and we will help in all ways we can.
Political Situation in Chad : Envoy Solicits Paul Biya’sOrientation
It was in an unusual diplomatic atmosphere that the Head of State, President
Chadian Transitional Military Council, headed by
Abdelkerim Idriss Deby Itno, Deputy Director of Civil Cabinet at the Chadian Presidency.The one-hour thirty minute-audience took place in the later part of the afternoon. Asone would have expected, thedelegation came to brief President Biya who doubles asthe
Chairman of the Conference of Heads of State of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central AfricanStates (CEMAC) on the tragicpolitical incident that led tothe killing of Field Marshal Idriss Deby Itno at the war front on 20th April in the northern part of the country.“Lire aussi : Cameroun – Tchad : destins communs