As approximately 8.7 million voters are participating in this two-round election in this French-speaking West African country of the Republic of Cote D'Ivoire this Saturday, October 25th, to elect a new president, a delegation from the joint ECOWAS-African Union Mission led by Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and other stakeholders are observing the election process.
The new elected president is to preside over the country's affairs for the next five years,
They are to choose their new president from among five candidates approved by the Constitutional Council: incumbent President Alassane Ouattara, Madam Simone Éhivet Gbagbo, Mr. Jean-Louis Billon, Mr. Ahoua Don Mello, and Madame Henriette Lagou Adjoua.
The joint ECOWAS-African Union Mission led by Prof. Osinbajo and including Mr. Mahamat Saleh Annadif, head of African Union delegation, Ambassador Bankole Adeoye, Commissioner of the African Union's Department of Political Affairs and Peace, Ambassador Abdel-Fatau Musah, ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, Ambassador Fanta Cissé, ECOWAS Resident Representative in Côte d'Ivoire, and several other ECOWAS and African Union officials visited several polling stations and offices in the municipalities of Cocody, Abobo, and Koumassi in Abidjan to observe the effective start of operations, ECOWAS said in a statement.