Former Chairman of the Independent Nigerian Electoral Commission (INEC) of Nigeria Prof. Attahiru Jega, is co-leading the July 23-29 mission for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and Ambassador Calixte Mbari, Head of Democracy, Elections and Constitutionalism of the African Union Commission preparatory to the elections in Liberia.
A statement by the ECOWAS on Sunday named members of the mission to include Ambassador Haja Alari Cole, member of the ECOWAS Council of the Wise; Ms Jean Mensa, Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana; and Mr Elyse Ouedraogo, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission of Burkina Faso.
Others are Muhammad Sulaiman Isa, Deputy Ambassador of Nigeria to ECOWAS; Dr Cyriaque Agnekethom, ECOWAS Director of Peacekeeping and Regional Security; as well as a joint technical team from the ECOWAS and AU Commissions.
The team which is leaving ahead of Liberia’s Presidential and Legislative elections scheduled for October 10, 2023, would be engaged in a joint pre-election fact-finding mission to Liberia to assess the country’s state of preparedness for the polls.
