Niger Coup: Kperogi, Sandy, Modibbo, Others To Speak At LEADERSHIP Twitter Spaces  

In the wake of the recent coup d’etat in the neighbouring Niger Republic and its attendant backlash, LEADERSHIP Media Group has organised a special Twitter Spaces featuring notable experts and commentators to discuss the implications and ramifications of the political development.

The event, scheduled for this Saturday, August 12, 2023 at 8pm Nigerian time, is expected to shed light on the evolving situation and its potential impact on Nigeria and the West African region at large. Particularly, it will discuss whether military action as being contemplated by ECOWAS is the best way or not.

LEADERSHIP has gathered a panel of distinguished voices as discussants for the Twitter Spaces conversation from within and outside Nigeria, including Prof. Farooq Kperogi, Dr. Jonathan Sandy, Prof. Usman Modibbo, Army Banda, and Comrade Deji Adeyanju.

Kperogi is a renowned Nigerian-American Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, United States, a renowned political analyst and also one of Nigeria’s newspaper columnists, whose views are widely quoted.

Dr Sandy is currently the Executive Chair of a Think-tank, Regional Center for Governance and Security Policy Initiative (RCGSPI), and chair of the African Union Economic, Social and Cultural Organisation (AU ECOSOCC) Peace and Security Committee/Cluster.

He was the 2023 presidential candidate for the National Unity and Reconciliation Party (NURP) – Sierra Leone. He is also the former chair of the All Political Parties Association (APPA) Sierra Leone.

Sandy is both a national and United Nations international practitioner with over 25 years of a career path in promoting democratic and economic governance, Justice, Human Rights, Rule of Law, Crisis and Stabilization Interventions in conflict and fragile states in Africa.

He has spent many years working for the Government of Sierra Leone, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)/UNDP, the African Union, UN/World Bank in numerous roles, providing high-level strategic and senior advisory support in the ECOWAS, Lake Chad Basin, Sahel, Horn/East Africa, and recently, in the South African Development Community SADC.

Adeyanju is an activist, critic, social commentator, and a former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) head of New Media, who is also the chair at Centre For Liberty Nigeria and Convener of Concerned Nigerians – a civil rights movement group.

For his part, Professor Shehu Usman Adamu Modibbo was a two-time member of Kaduna State House of Assembly, where he became the Minority Leader.

Modibbo is also a former Commissioner in the Ministry of Education; Science, and Technology; and Commissioner, Ministry of Commerce Industry and Tourism in Kaduna State, and now Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).

While Banda is a multiple award-winning journalist. Her work focuses on peace and development of Africa. Her work has taken her to many African countries, the Middle East and Asia.