The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has appointed Nigeria’s former Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, to lead its Election Observation Mission to the forthcoming presidential election in Côte d’Ivoire.
The ECOWAS secretariat announced this in a statement made available to newsmen on Sunday in Abuja. According to the statement, the presidential election in Côte d’Ivoire is scheduled to take place on October 25.
The mission will be deployed from October 19 to October 29 in accordance with the provisions of the ECOWAS Supplementary Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance.
As Head of Mission, Osinbajo will lead a team of eminent West Africans mandated to engage key national stakeholders in support of a peaceful and credible electoral process.
The team will also collaborate with other international and domestic observer groups while assessing the overall conduct of the polls.
The deployment of this Observation Mission reaffirms ECOWAS’s unwavering commitment to promoting peace, stability, and credible elections across the West African sub-region.
