Security analyst and Executive Director at West Africa Centre for Counter-Extremism, Mutaru Mumuni Muqthar has  described he exit as huge blow to the both sub-regional body and the three countries which have opted out of the group.

According to Mr. Mutaru, not only will it chip away aspects of the organisation’s authority but it will further open member states as well as the three that just announced their exit, to further security challenges in addition