2027: ECOWAS appoints ex-Ghanaian President Akufo-Addo to lead observers

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has appointed erstwhile Ghanaian President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to caput its Election Observation Mission to Nigeria up of the January 2027 wide elections.

The assignment was announced successful a connection released by the Office of the Former President connected Thursday, November 12, 2026.

According to the statement, Akufo-Addo volition oversee the deployment of predetermination observers for Nigeria’s statesmanlike and National Assembly elections scheduled to clasp connected January 16, 2027.

ECOWAS is expected to deploy a 200-member perceiver squad successful accordance with its Supplementary Protocol connected Democracy and Good Governance, adopted successful 2001.

The ngo volition comprise representatives of overseas affairs ministries, electoral commissions and ECOWAS ambassadors accredited to Nigeria.

Other participants volition beryllium drawn from the ECOWAS Council of the Wise, the determination bloc’s Court of Justice and Parliament, electoral bodies of subordinate states, civilian nine organisations, media practitioners and predetermination specialists from crossed West Africa.

The deployment forms portion of ECOWAS's determination predetermination monitoring framework, which mandates the organisation to observe electoral processes successful memb...