ECOWAS Appoints Ex-Ghana President To Lead Nigeria’s 2027 Election Observers
ECOWAS Appoints Ex-Ghana President To Lead Nigeria’s 2027 Election Observers
Former President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has appointed former Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to lead its Election Observation Mission to Nigeria ahead of the country’s January 2027 general elections.Buy Maps
The appointment was disclosed in a statement issued by the Office of the Former President on Thursday, November 12, 2026.
According to the statement, Akufo-Addo will lead the deployment of election observers for Nigeria’s presidential and National Assembly elections scheduled for January 16, 2027.
The regional bloc will constitute a 200-member observer mission in line with its Supplementary Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance, adopted in 2001.
The team will comprise experts from foreign affairs ministries, electoral commissions and ECOWAS ambassadors accredited in Abuja.
Other members will be drawn from the ECOWAS Council of the Wise, the ECOWAS Court of Justice, the ECOWAS Parliament, electoral commissions of member states, civil society organisations, media practitioners and electoral experts from across the region.
The deployment is part of ECOWAS’s regional election observation framework, which provides for monitoring electoral processes in member states in accordance with its democratic governance protocols.
Akufo-Addo served as Ghana’s president from January 2017 to January 2025, completing two terms in office before handing over to John Dramani Mahama.
He previously led the ECOWAS Election Observation Mission to Benin for its April 2026 presidential election.
