The request by the Chairman of ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, President Bola Tinubu, to deploy Nigerian troops to Niger Republic as part of the community’s effort to reinstate the democratically elected president of the country, President Mohamed Bazoum, has been rejected by Nigerian Senators.

Following the refusal of the coup leaders to backtrack, West African defence ECOWAS chiefs said they had drawn a plan for military action as part of which President Tinubu wrote the Senate for permission to involve Nigerian troops in the action.

However, at an executive session on Saturday, the senators rejected the request by the president.

At the session, it was reported that President Goodswill Akpabio appealed to the lawmakers to endorse President Tinubu's steps so far, but they vehemently rejected the appeal.

The Senators revealed that they would pass a resolution condemning the coup, but on the issue of going to war with Niger, it was a no go area.

Access24 reports that President Mohamed Bazoum was deposed on 26 July in a coup led by his presidential guards.

The newsroom also reports that the ECOWAS leaders at a meeting in Abuja four days later gave the coup leaders a seven-day ultimatum to restore constitutional order or face the possible use of force.

The regional body further imposed sanctions on the coup leaders with Nigeria also cutting electricity supplies and closing its borders with the poor West African nation.