The Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) on Monday stressed the need for peaceful conduct of the 2023 general elections in Nigeria.
A delegation of ECOWAS Pre-Election Fact-Finding Mission to Nigeria led by former chairman of Ghana’s Electoral Commission, Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, made the call during a visit to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headquarters on Monday in Abuja.
The Director of Political Affairs, ECOWAS Commission, Remi Ajibewa, who spoke on behalf of the group, said the elections are important to the socio-economic activities of countries in the West African sub-region.
He said the delegation was on a fact-finding mission ahead of the elections in line with ECOWAS Supplementary Protocol 2021 to observe elections in Nigeria.
He noted that Articles 11, 12, and 13 of the protocol mandated the ECOWAS to deploy electoral fact-finding missions to every member State of ECOWAS that are about to conduct elections, especially presidential…
