The African Union (AU) has appointed former
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan to lead its Election Observer Mission to
the Zambian elections, which are scheduled to take place on Thursday next week.
In a statement, the AU Commission said
Jonathan would shortly lead a 10-member delegation to Lusaka where they will
join a long-term observer team which deployed on July 4 and is due to leave on
August 22, two weeks after the polls.
For the first time, the team of AU long-term
experts include election, legal, political, media and campaign analysts.
“The objective is to ensure that the AU-EOM
approaches its work with added professionalism and factual analysis of all
aspects of the electoral process in Zambia.
At the second phase of the mission,
the long-term experts will be joined by short-term observers from August 1-15,
2016. The short-term mission will be headed by Goodluck Jonathan, former
President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” the AUC said.
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