Nigeria granted ASYLUM SA GUINEA-BISSAUNIATION PRICICICED FINERANDO DIAST DA COSTA just days after the results of the new elections were announced.
The 47-year-old, who is running as a candidate for the Party for social change, is under the special protection of the Nigerian embassy, following “threats made by the foreign minister of Nigeria.
Dias is the main promoter of UMMOgo Sissococo Embaló, who sought a second term as President and left the country after the military takeover.
A delegation from West Africa Bluc Ecowas is in the country, urging military action and releasing the results of the vote.
Both Embaló and Dias claimed victory in the Presidential poll held on 23 November.
The PaigC Party, the Party movement that ended Portuguese colonial rule, was barred from fielding a candidate.
The time came three days after the vote. The military suspended the election process, prevented the release of results and forced it into action thwart a plot to corrupt an unstable nation.
The junta has also imposed restrictions on the country, prohibiting all demonstrations and “all actions disruptive to the peace and stability of the country”.
Tensions remain high in the capital, bissau. PaigC said its title was “illegally attacked by heavily armed militia groups following the coup.
Its leader, Domingos Pereira, was arrested on the day of the coup, according to family and Party members.
Dias said he escaped from his campaign headquarters on the day of the coup as armed men came to arrest him.
Nigeria’s foreign minister Yusuf Tuggar said President Bola Tinubu has agreed to give Diaas protection inside the Nigerian embassy in Bissia.
“The decision to accommodate Mr (Fernando Diass) DA Costa in Nigerian Nigeria highlights our strong wishes and the Tuggrar in a letter to the ecowas commission Aliuu Omar the Tray.
The letter also requested that soldiers from an EcoWas unit in the country be deployed to the Nigerian embassy to prevent dias.
Talks of reflection on Monday between the EcoWas delegation, led by Sierra Leone Minister Alhaji Musa Timothy Kabba, and the Junta were heated.
Afterwards, Kabba told reporters that the discussions were “productive,” but said that “both parties expressed their concerns”.
The junta has sworn in a new transitional leader, Gen Horta N’tam, Who will rule the country in a year.
EcoWas leaders have suspended Guinea-Bissau from all decision-making until the constitution is restored.
The real motives behind the coup in Guinea-Bissau remain unclear Intermediate hypothesis that it can be targeted.
The Prime Minister of Senegal Ousmane Sonko and Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan both said that the coup was carried out without providing evidence.
Some civil society groups also accused Emlaló of mastering a “simulated coup” against himself with the help of the military, that it was a ruse to block the election results that were lost.
Embaló, who previously faced accusations of using crises to defeat corruption, did not respond to allegations of restraint.
The 53-year-old allowed to leave for neighboring Senegal on Thursdayfrom where he reportedly moved to Congo-Brazzaville at the weekend.
Guinea-Bissau has witnessed at least nine coups or attempted coups in the last five decades.
Sandwiched between Senegal and Guinea, it is known as a drug hub where the military was influenced from Portugal in 1974.