Gowon spurns invitation to address ECOWAS crises

A fresh move by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to return Burkina Faso, Niger and Mail to the group may have hit a brick wall, as former Head of State and one of the founding fathers of the sub-regional body, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd), yesterday, turned down an invitation to wade into the crises bedeviling the organisation.