Liberia Polls: Mahama leads ECOWAS Observer Mission

Former President John Mahama is leaving Accra Thursday, October 5 for Monrovia to lead the Observer Mission of ECOWAS to the October 10, 2017 Liberian general elections.

According to a statement issued on Thursday and signed by Special Aide, Joyce Bawah Mogtari, since leaving Office in January, Former President Mahama has been helping to entrench democracy and stability in Africa. He has also been working with the African Development Bank to help improve agriculture. 

In landmark elections slated for Oct. 10, Liberians will vote in the country’s third postwar presidential and legislative races. 

Incumbent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first female president, is ineligible to run because of constitutionally mandated term limits. 

So January 2018 will mark the first time in recent memory that a democratically elected Liberian president will hand power to a similarly elected head of state.

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