{"id":4203,"date":"2015-03-12T23:05:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T23:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecowas.int\/ecowas-to-ensure-credible-elections-in-nigeria-2\/"},"modified":"2015-03-23T16:02:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T16:02:50","slug":"ecowas-to-ensure-credible-elections-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecowas.int\/?p=4203&lang=fr","title":{"rendered":"LA CEDEAO VEILLERA A LA TENUE D\u2019ELECTIONS CREDIBLES AU NIGERIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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La CEDEAO a tout mis en \u0153uvre pour que les \u00e9lections g\u00e9n\u00e9rales du Nig\u00e9ria, pr\u00e9vues les 28 mars et 11 avril 2015, se d\u00e9roulent dans le respect des protocoles et textes r\u00e9gionaux pertinents et des meilleures pratiques internationales.<\/p>\n

A cet effet, la mission d\u2019observation \u00e0 long terme des \u00e9lections de la CEDEAO (MOLTE), qui avait \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9ploy\u00e9e \u00e0 travers le pays avant le report du scrutin initialement pr\u00e9vu le 14 f\u00e9vrier, est revenue pour poursuivre sa t\u00e2che.<\/p>\n

Les observateurs font partie de la grande mission d\u2019observation \u00e9lectorale de 250 membres, qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9ploy\u00e9e pour suivre le vote sous la direction de l\u2019ancien pr\u00e9sident du Ghana, John Kufuor, qui a effectu\u00e9 en octobre dernier une mission d\u2019information au Nigeria.<\/p>\n

Dans la d\u00e9claration faite \u00e0 la suite du report du scrutin, la CEDEAO avait relev\u00e9 \u00ables pr\u00e9occupations et la d\u00e9ception\u00bb des Nig\u00e9rians et des autres acteurs et lanc\u00e9 un appel \u00e0 tous les protagonistes du jeu politique afin qu\u2019ils acceptent ce report en toute bonne foi.<\/p>\n

La CEDEAO avait \u00e9galement invit\u00e9 les services de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 \u00e0 rester d\u00e9vou\u00e9s \u00e0 leur t\u00e2che afin de restaurer la paix dans le nord-est du pays et exhort\u00e9 le corps \u00e9lectoral \u00e0 saisir l\u2019occasion de ce report pour achever tous les pr\u00e9paratifs, notamment la distribution des cartes d\u2019\u00e9lecteur.<\/p>\n

L\u2019organisation sous-r\u00e9gionale avait aussi soulign\u00e9 la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 de respecter la Constitution et encourag\u00e9 tous les acteurs politiques \u00e0 \u00e9viter les propos ou discours susceptibles d\u2019inciter leurs partisans ou leurs opposants \u00e0 la violence.<\/p>\n

Entre-temps, le pr\u00e9sident de la Commission de la CEDEAO, Kadr\u00e9 D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Ou\u00e9draogo, et les membres de l\u2019\u00e9quipe technique de la commission des \u00e9lections, ont poursuivi les consultations avec les diff\u00e9rents acteurs dans le cadre des efforts visant \u00e0 assurer un processus \u00e9lectoral, libre, \u00e9quitable et cr\u00e9dible.<\/p>\n

La d\u00e9l\u00e9gation de la CEDEAO a rencontr\u00e9, entre autres, le pr\u00e9sident Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, candidat \u00e0 sa propre succession et porte-drapeau du parti au pouvoir, le People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP), ainsi que son principal adversaire du All Progressive Congress (APC), le g\u00e9n\u00e9ral (\u00e0 la retraite) Muhammadu Buhari, de m\u00eame que le pr\u00e9sident de la Commission \u00e9lectorale nationale ind\u00e9pendante (CENI), Pr Attahiru Jega.<\/p>\n

Au cours de ces consultations, la d\u00e9l\u00e9gation de la CEDEAO, tout en faisant montre d\u2019impartialit\u00e9 et de neutralit\u00e9, a insist\u00e9 sur le soutien et la solidarit\u00e9 de la Communaut\u00e9 envers le Nigeria et les diff\u00e9rents acteurs du scrutin.<\/p>\n

La mission d\u2019observation \u00e9lectorale de la CEDEAO est l\u2019une des plus fortes d\u00e9l\u00e9gations envoy\u00e9es par une organisation internationale. Elle est en train d\u2019\u00eatre d\u00e9ploy\u00e9e dans la plupart de six zones g\u00e9opolitiques du pays.<\/p>\n

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ECOWAS underlined the necessity for respect of the Constitution and encouraged all the political actors to avoid any words or speech that may incite their partisans or their opponents to the violence.
\nMeanwhile, the President of the ECOWAS Commission H.E. Kadr\u00e9 Desire Ou\u00e9draogo and members of the Commission\u2019s election technical team, have also continued consultations with key Nigerian stakeholders as part of efforts to ensure free, fair, and credible electoral process in the country.
\nThe ECOWAS delegation, has among others, met with Nigeria\u2019s President Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the presidential candidate of the ruling People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP), his counterpart of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) General Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd), and the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof Attahiru Jega.
\nThe central theme of ECOWAS delegation\u2019s message during the consultations is support and solidarity with Nigeria, with the organization at the same time, maintaining its neutrality.
\nAs an important country in West Africa and the continent, Nigeria\u2019s 2015 elections have generated heightened international interest amid serious security concerns.
\nThe ECOWAS Election Observation Mission, one of the largest by an international organization is being deployed to most of Nigeria\u2019s six geopolitical zones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

La CEDEAO a tout mis en \u0153uvre pour que les \u00e9lections g\u00e9n\u00e9rales du Nig\u00e9ria, pr\u00e9vues les 28 mars et 11 avril 2015, se d\u00e9roulent dans le respect des protocoles et textes r\u00e9gionaux pertinents et des meilleures pratiques internationales. A cet effet, la mission d\u2019observation \u00e0 long terme des \u00e9lections de la CEDEAO (MOLTE), qui avait […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classifiee"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecowas.int\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecowas.int\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecowas.int\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecowas.int\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecowas.int\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecowas.int\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4206,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecowas.int\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203\/revisions\/4206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecowas.int\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecowas.int\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecowas.int\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecowas.int\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}