Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has deployed 250 election observers to monitor the coming elections in Nigeria.
While speaking during a meeting with the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) and his running mate, Prof. Yemi Osibanjo, the ECOWAS President, Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo, said “We have decided to deploy an observer team of 250 persons to Nigeria and we have decided to deploy a long term observation mission.
“They were deployed from January 20 in the geopolitical zones of Nigeria. They came back after the postponement of the election but we had a debriefing session with them.
“We must be grateful if we can have your views of the electoral process so that we can impute it in the way ECOWAS is going to bring it is supports to peaceful and stable elections in Nigeria because peace and stability are essential for development and we know that peace and security in Nigeria is so important for the rest of our community. So, we are all engaged in this process and we all wish this electoral process would be successful.”
Buhari thanked the commission for its keen interest in the political stability of Nigeria because if “Nigeria sneezes, ECOWAS catches cold.”
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