Ahead of Liberia’s Presidential and Legislative elections to be held on October 10, 2023, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU) have deployed a joint pre-election fact finding mission to Liberia to assess the Country’s preparedness for the polls.
Professor Attahiru Jega the former chairman of the Independent Nigerian Electoral Commission (INEC) is co-leading the July 23-29, 2023 mission for ECOWAS while Ambassador Calixte Mabari is heading the African Union Commission.
In a statement it noted that other members of the mission are Ambassador Haja Alari Cole, member of the ECOWAS Council of the Wise, madam Jean Mensah EC chair of Ghana, Mr. Elyse Ouedraogo chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission of Burkina Faso, M. Muhammad Sulaiman Isa, Deputy Ambassador of Nigeria to ECOWAS, Dr. Cyriaque Agnekethom, ECOWAS Director Peacekeeping and Regional Security, as well as joint technical team from the ECOWAS and AU Commission.
The joint delegation will hold working sessions with the various stakeholders in the electoral process in Liberia, including government, National Electoral Commission, the Judiciary, Parliament, political parties, Civil Society Organisations, Security Agencies and International Development partners.
The Mission will submit a comprehensive report to inform the support of ECOWAS and AU to the 2023 electoral process in Liberia at the end of the engagement; both did provide similar support to the country during the 2017 elections.
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He said that “the winning of Dr Tulia Ackson, Speaker of the Tanzanian National Assembly as President of the IPU is a win not just for East Africa but the entire African continent.”
“We are all one people, we must take steps to reinforce that unity. With unity we can deal with many challenges, slowing economic growth. We must not allow this to foster in the near future and we want you to inform her that Nigeria has a big role to play in her aspiration and they need to get to know more about her manifesto and what she is taking to the IPU cannot be over-emphasised. We need to understand her vision, mission to the IPU as we throw our support towards her, Kalu said.
Mr. Agbodza made this remarks on Tuesday, July 19, 2023 on the floor of the House, where he asked the whereabouts of the 138 members of the Majority. “It should not be said anywhere that the absence of the Minority is affecting business of the House.”
According to the MP the six-unit classroom block belonging to the Presby A and C school is called Hon Yaw Osafo-Maaf classroom block due to the role he had played for them.
The building which collapsed two-and-half years ago after a heavy rain storm, was rebuilt through the instrumentality of the MP and the support of the Senior Presidential Advisor and the support of corporate bodies.
According to him in the case of the Republic of Togo there are claims that H. E. President Faure Gnassingbe was not going to run again but from every indication since the constitution has been amended there are indications that he is going to start from the begging.
This, he noted, would help ensure that H. E. President Adama Barrow steps down when he finishes his second term. “He should step aside for someone else; but from every indication from what we are hearing it is likely he will run again; we need to put our Satellites on that”.
Emmanuel Bedzrah recounted his experience at the first Ordinary Session in Abuja – Nigeria and lamented saying “blame MPs; for instance in the case of Senegal our colleague Vilane who we know spoke his mind. He was supporting a third term bid of H. E President Macky Sall until he changed his mind recently. I was surprised that a person of that stature was going that way, he should have called that their constitution should not be amended”.
Again, in the case of Burkina Faso they did not have issues about their constitution but had issue on state security when they had people from the Sahel coming down to take over their own government.
