Ghana’s former president to lead 200-member ECOWAS observer mission for Nigeria’s 2027 elections

The appointment was announced in a statement issued by the Office of the Former President on Thursday, November 12, 2026.

Mr Akufo-Addo will lead a 200-member team comprising representatives and experts from various institutions across West Africa.

The statement said the deployment would be undertaken in line with the regional bloc’s “Supplementary Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance (2001)”.

Civil society organisations, media practitioners and electoral experts from across the region will also be represented.

The three frontline presidential candidates for the 2027 election: Peter Obi, Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar. (Businessday) Nigeria’s presidential election will feature 19 candidates, including incumbent President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), and former Anambra State Governor Peter Gregory Obi of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC).