Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, SAN has called on the leadership of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States to immediately reply to the deteriorating human rights and rule of law crisis in Senegal.
Falana urged the ECOWAS leadership to consider imposing some sanctions on Senegal for violating the democratic rights of its citizens by postponing the presidential election.
President Macky Sall had on Saturday announced the indefinite postponement of the presidential election, which was originally set to take place on February 25, just hours before official campaigning was due to start.
AFP reports that it is the first time a Senegalese presidential election has been postponed.
