The {Economic} Neighborhood of West African States (ECOWAS) has appointed the speedy previous Vice President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), to guide its Election Remark Mission to the presidential election within the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire scheduled for 25 th October, 2025.
The mission can be within the nation until twenty ninth October, 2025 consistent with the provisions of the ECOWAS Supplementary Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance.
As head of mission, Osinbajo will lead a group of eminent West Africans tasked with participating key nationwide stakeholders to assist a peaceable and credible electoral course of, fostering cooperation with different worldwide and home observer {groups}, and assessing the conduct of the polls.
The deployment of this Remark Mission underscores ECOWAS’s unwavering dedication to selling peace, stability, and credible elections within the sub-region.
The President of Ivory Coast is elected by plurality vote to a as soon as renewable 5-year time period, in accordance with the Worldwide Foundation For Electoral Techniques.
The final election was held in 2020 the place the incumbent, Alassane Quattara was elected with 94 % of the vote.
Moreover Quattara, who’s looking for re-election, different candidates within the election are Simone Gbagbo; Jean-Louis Billon; Ahoua Don Mello; Henriette Lagou Adjoua.
Some aspirants, together with former president Laurent Gbagbo, have been disqualified from contesting the election.
