[ 2016-11-29 ]

Mbeki leads C’wealth observer team
Former President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki is
leading the Commonwealth Observer Mission to
monitor Ghana’s 7 December polls.

Mr Mbeki will be in Accra on Tuesday, 29 November.
He will be in town for two weeks. He will return
home on December 13, 2016.

Mr Mbeki said in a statement that he decided to
take on the responsibility because “all of us
have a responsibility to do everything possible to
ensure that Africa continues to consolidate and
deepen democracy as one of the central pillars in
her Renaissance.”

Ghanaians will be electing a new president and 275
MPs in the upcoming polls. The two frontrunners
are President John Mahama of the governing
National Democratic Congress and three-time flag
bearer Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party
(NPP).

The others are Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom of the
Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Mr Ivor
Greenstreet of the Convention People’s Party
(CPP), Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings of the
National Democratic Party (NDP), Dr Edward Mahama
of the People's National Convention (PNC) and
independent candidate Jacob Osei Yeboah (JOY).

A total of 15,683,435 voters are expected to vote
in the elections.

Source - Classfmonline

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