ECOWAS Appoints Ex-Ghana President To Lead Nigeria’s 2027 Election Observers

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has appointed former Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to steer its Election Observation Mission to Nigeria forward of the nation’s January 2027 basic elections.

The appointment was disclosed in a press release issued by the Office of the Former President on Thursday, November 12, 2026.

According to the assertion, 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 represent a 200-member observer mission according to its Supplementary Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance, adopted in 2001.

The workforce will comprise consultants from overseas affairs ministries, electoral commissions and ECOWAS ambassadors accredited in Abuja.

Other members can 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 consultants from throughout the area.

The deployment is a part of ECOWAS’s regional election commentary framework, which gives 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, finishing two phrases in workplace earlier than handing over to John Dramani Mahama.

He beforehand led the ECOWAS Election Observation Mission to Benin for its April 2026 presidential election.