As the nation counts down to Saturday’s presidential election, leaders of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, are meeting with the main contenders in Abuja.
According to a PUNCH report, ECOWAS Chairman, President John Mahama of Ghana and the President of the ECOWAS Commission, Desire-Kadre Ouedraogo, are in a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja.
The report also say the delegation is billed to meet with the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, General Muhammadu Buhari later in the day, though at a different venue in Abuja, with a similar meeting expected to be held with the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega.
It was further reported that the meetings were meant to extract commitments from the contenders and the nation’s authorities that the elections will be credible and hitch-free.
"This election is of interest, not only to Nigerians but also to the international community. ECOWAS, as a regional organisation, cannot but be interested in the smooth conduct of the polls. That’s why the leadership is engaging in this last-minute interventions", a government official said.
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