Nigeria has granted asylum to Guinea-Bissau presidential candidate Fernando Dias da Costa just days after a coup prevented the results of the recent election being announced.
The 47-year-old, who ran as a candidate for the Party for Social Renewal, was under special protection at the Nigerian embassy, following 'threats made against' him, Nigeria's foreign minister said.
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Dias said he escaped from his campaign headquarters on the day of the coup as armed men came to arrest him.
Nigeria's Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar said President Bola Tinubu had agreed to give Dias protection inside the Nigerian embassy in Bissau.
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Guinea-Bissau has witnessed at least nine coups or attempted coups over the last five decades, sandwiched between Senegal and Guinea, in an area notorious for drug trafficking with military influence.
