Nigeria\u2019s former President, Goodluck Jonathan is scheduled to arrive
\nMonrovia this Sunday as leader of the delegation of the United States\u2019
\nNational Democratic Institute (NDI) International Elections Observation Mission to Liberia\u2019s presidential run-off polls, slated to hold on December 26, 2017.
\nThe run-off election is being contested by the ruling Unity Party candidate and current Vice President, Joseph Nyumah Boakai, and the opposition Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) candidate, George Weah.
\nThe NDI delegation of 35 political and civic leaders, elections experts and regional specialists from 18 countries across Africa, Europe and North America includes Atifete Jahjaga, former president of Kosovo, Hanna Tetteh, former minister of foreign affairs of Ghana, and NDI regional director Dr, Christopher Fomunyoh.
\nA statement issued by the ex-President\u2019s Media Adviser, Mr. Ikechukwu Eze, said that Jonathan would be leading the delegation, alongside former President Jahjaga.
\n“I am honoured to co-lead NDI’s international delegation to support
\ntransparent and peaceful elections in Liberia, especially given the close relationship Nigeria has always had with this country,” Jonathan had said ahead of his trip.
\nFormer President Jonathan, who is also the Chairman of the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation was initially invited as co-lead of the NDI team for the last October 10 presidential elections in Liberia but could not honour the invitation because of his earlier commitments to attend the 15th Rhodes Forum in Greece where he presented a paper on \u2018Multi-Polarity and Dialogue in Regional and Global Development.\u2019
\nThe ex-President however promised to honour the second invitation by NDI, a United States \u2013 based organization working to support and strengthen democratic institutions worldwide to monitor the re-run
\nelection.
\nAccording to NDI, the election \u201drepresents a historic moment for Liberia, as the country will have the first opportunity for a peaceful transfer of power from one democratically-elected president to
\nanother. These polls would also mark the end of tenure for President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first female democratically-elected president in Africa.\u201d
\nNDI delegates have been meeting with the National Elections Commission, government officials, political leaders and civil society organizations, after which they will observe polling places on election day.
\nNDI has organized more than 150 international election observer
\ndelegations in 62 countries and has established a reputation for
\nimpartiality and professionalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nigeria\u2019s former President, Goodluck Jonathan is scheduled to arrive Monrovia this Sunday as leader of the delegation of the United States\u2019 National Democratic Institute (NDI) International Elections Observation Mission to Liberia\u2019s presidential run-off polls, slated to hold on December 26, 2017. The run-off election is being contested by the ruling Unity Party candidate and current […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}