[ 2011-04-14 ]

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor

Kufuor leads AU observer mission for Nigeria’s elections
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor leaves Accra
Wednesday for Abuja, Nigeria, as head of a
40-member African Union (AU) Observer Mission to
the country’s Presidential elections, which
comes off on Saturday, April 16, 2011.

The AU Mission to be deployed to all parts of the
country is made up of personalities from the AU
Commission, the Pan-African Parliament, officials
of national electoral bodies and members of the
African Civil Society.

A statement issued to the Ghana News Agency signed
by Mr Frank Agyekum, Spokesman for the Former
President, said the mission is expected at the
outset, to make an independent and impartial
observation of the electoral process in Nigeria.

Former President Kufuor will also coordinate
activities of the Observer Mission of the
International Republic Institute whose
pre-election monitoring team he chaired last
March.

About 73 million people have registered for the
presidential, parliamentary, and gubernatorial
polls over two weeks.

Twenty-two candidates are contesting incumbent
Goodluck Jonathan for the Presidency while there
are 360 seats up for grabs in the House of
Representatives, and 109 in the Upper House, or
the Senate.

Logistical constraints, including the inability to
distribute voting materials to all electoral areas
caused the two-week elections to be postponed for
a week.

Former President Kufuor will be away for about one
week, the statement said.

Source - GNA

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