African regional bloc, the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) has predicted the outcome of the 2023 general elections of Nigeria.
It said the outcome will have effects on the West Africa region and Africa continent as a whole.
ECOWAS stated this when a delegation of ECOWAS Pre-Election Fact Finding Mission to Nigeria led by former chairman, Electoral Commission of Ghana, Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, visited the Independent National Electoral Commission headquarters in Abuja on Monday.
Speaking on behalf of the group, the Director, Political Affairs, ECOWAS Commission, Remi Ajibewa, said that they were in Nigeria for fact finding ahead of the countryโs 2023 general elections in line with ECOWAS Supplementary Protocol 2021 to observe elections in Nigeria.
According to Ajibewa, Article 11, 12 and 13 of the protocol mandated the commission to deploy electoral fact-finding missions to every member state of ECOWAS that are about to conduct elections, especially presidential elections.
He said, โWe all know the importance Nigeria holds, given the fact that, as they used to say, if Nigeria sneezes, the whole West Africa catches cold and we donโt pray that will be the result. So, we are here to listen to you, to see the area of challenges that we might also report.โ
In his response, the INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, assured the ECOWAS delegation that Nigeriaโs 2023 general elections will be driven by technology to enhance credible elections.
โLet me restate the commitment of INEC Nigeria to free, fair and credible elections driven by technology. The 2023 general elections in Nigeria will be driven by technology not only as a matter of legal requirement, but also as a matter of course, for us in the commission.
โSo, I want to assure the ECOWAS team that we are committed to delivering a credible election in the next four months and a few days, which will be Nigeriaโs seventh successive election since the restoration of democracy in 1999.โ
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