{"id":310,"date":"2017-11-30T16:23:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T16:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=310"},"modified":"2017-12-17T21:28:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T21:28:24","slug":"president-buhari-will-regional-consequences-crisis-togo-not-resolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/president-buhari-will-regional-consequences-crisis-togo-not-resolved","title":{"rendered":"President Buhari: There will be regional consequences if the crisis in Togo is not resolved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Muhammadu Buhari says the political crisis in Togo will have regional consequences if not resolved.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Buhari said this during a bilateral meeting with President Alassane Ouattara of Ivory Coast, on the margins of the 5th\u00a0AU-EU Summit in Abidjan Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>There have been protests in the streets of Togo for the resignation of Faure Gnassingbe, its president, who has spent decades in power.<\/p>\n<p>The citizen action has raged on for weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must have a solution in Togo. The friends of the opposition and authorities must talk to them on the steps to jointly take to achieve stability. They must work towards gaining the trust of each other,\u201d the Nigerian president said<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2018There will be regional consequences for instability in Togo and this will surely come at a cost to development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buhari had a separate bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel where the issue of stopping illegal migration of Nigerians to Europe was discussed.<\/p>\n<p>He also had discussions with Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo and the Vice-President of the Gambia\u00a0Fatoumata Tambajang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari says the political crisis in Togo will have regional consequences if not resolved. Buhari said this during a bilateral meeting with President Alassane Ouattara of Ivory Coast, on the margins of the 5th\u00a0AU-EU Summit in Abidjan Thursday. There have been protests in the streets of Togo for the resignation of Faure Gnassingbe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>President Buhari: There will be regional consequences if the crisis in Togo is not resolved - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Muhammadu Buhari says the political crisis in Togo will have regional consequences if not resolved.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/president-buhari-will-regional-consequences-crisis-togo-not-resolved\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"President Buhari: There will be regional consequences if the crisis in Togo is not resolved\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Muhammadu Buhari says the political crisis in Togo will have regional consequences if not resolved.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/president-buhari-will-regional-consequences-crisis-togo-not-resolved\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-11-30T16:23:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-12-17T21:28:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2017\/11\/President-Muhammadu-Buhari-in-AGH.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"fredrick\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"fredrick\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/president-buhari-will-regional-consequences-crisis-togo-not-resolved#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/president-buhari-will-regional-consequences-crisis-togo-not-resolved\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"fredrick\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/87a4f87ebc72283702ca76e80069c99e\"},\"headline\":\"President Buhari: There will be regional consequences if the crisis in Togo is not resolved\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-11-30T16:23:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-12-17T21:28:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/president-buhari-will-regional-consequences-crisis-togo-not-resolved\"},\"wordCount\":188,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/president-buhari-will-regional-consequences-crisis-togo-not-resolved#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2017\/11\/President-Muhammadu-Buhari-in-AGH.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/president-buhari-will-regional-consequences-crisis-togo-not-resolved#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/president-buhari-will-regional-consequences-crisis-togo-not-resolved\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/president-buhari-will-regional-consequences-crisis-togo-not-resolved\",\"name\":\"President Buhari: There will be regional consequences if the crisis in Togo is not resolved - 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