THE AFRICAN UNION SENDS AN OBSERVER MISSION TO NIGERIA
Addis Ababa, 31st March 2011 – The Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission is deploying an electoral observation mission to the Federal Republic of Nigeria to witness the parliamentary and presidential elections scheduled to be held respectively on the 2nd and 9th of April 2011. Led by Mr John Agyekum Kufuor, former President of Ghana and former Chairperson of the AU, the Mission is expected, at the outset, to make an independent and impartial observation of the electoral process in Nigeria.
The AU Mission to be deployed across Nigeria is made up of personalities including representatives of AU Member States, representatives of the AU Commission, Pan-African Parliamentarians, officials of national electoral bodies and members of the African Civil Society.
The AU has been duly invited by the Nigerian authorities to observe the general elections in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Durban Declaration of July 2002 on the principles regulating democratic elections in Africa. Djibouti is not yet received the AU observers while they have got ready to hold their presidential elections on the seven of April 2011
Journalists for African Renaissance wishes best of luck with peaceful manner in a stable way.
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