Breaking: Sit-tight syndrome over as AU, ECOWAS backed by UN Security Council could now unseat leaders by troops to enforce fair election results

THE United Nations Security Council has sent a strongly-worded message to West Africa and indeed all of Africa that it is not going to be business as usual in a bid to protect democracy on the continent, BBC West Africa correspondent, Thomas Fessy has reported.

The message states that ECOWAS and indeed the African Union backed by the United Nations Security Council would henceforth send troops or intervention force to enforce fair election results in the event of reported irregularities in any electoral process. 

According to him, this option was deemed absolutely necessary to check the sit-tight syndrome by African leaders that has often plunged countries on the continent into political crises.