{"id":76932,"date":"2025-10-19T19:03:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76932"},"modified":"2025-10-19T19:03:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:03:54","slug":"osinbajo-to-lead-ecowas-election-mission-to-cote-divoire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/19\/osinbajo-to-lead-ecowas-election-mission-to-cote-divoire\/","title":{"rendered":"Osinbajo to Lead ECOWAS Election Mission to C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/p>\n<p>Former Nigerian Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has been appointed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), to head its election observation mission for C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire\u2019s upcoming presidential election scheduled for October 25, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Sunday, ECOWAS said the mission would be deployed from October 19 to 29, in accordance with its Supplementary Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance.<\/p>\n<p>As Head of Mission, Osinbajo will lead a team of senior West African officials to engage national stakeholders, coordinate with observer groups, and assess the entire electoral process, from pre-election activities to voting and results collation.<\/p>\n<p>The regional bloc described the move as part of its \u201cunwavering commitment to promoting peace, stability, and credible elections\u201d in West Africa, noting that the Ivorian election holds key implications for regional democracy and stability.<\/p>\n<p>The ECOWAS delegation will meet electoral authorities, political parties, civil society, and the media, and will issue a preliminary report after the polls assessing the credibility of the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat Former Nigerian Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has been appointed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), to head its election observation mission for C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire\u2019s upcoming presidential election scheduled for October 25, 2025. In a statement on Sunday, ECOWAS said the mission would be deployed from October 19 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":76933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-76932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76934,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76932\/revisions\/76934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}