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The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has sent best wishes to the people of Nigeria as they go to the polls tomorrow. “We in the NPP and in Ghana, generally, join the good people of Nigeria in praying for free, fair and peaceful elections across the entire Federal Republic,” the NPP said in a statement.

Tomorrow, nearly 70 million Nigerians will go to the polls to elect the next President and Members to the House of Representatives and the Senate.  It will be the country’s fifth election since the end of military rule in 1999 and a very big step in the continuing process of consolidating democracy in the most powerful country in West Africa in the size of both its economy and population. 

According to the NPP statement, signed by Nana Akufo-Addo, its 2016 presidential candidate, the success of democracy in Nigeria is the success for democracy in Ghana, West Africa and Africa as a whole.  This, the NPP believes, is because our destinies, hopes and aspirations are linked in our collective quest to create free, fair and modern societies of opportunity and prosperity in Africa.

 The NPP said it was also pleased that two prominent figures from Ghana are playing key supporting roles in ensuring a successful outcome in the polls.  President John Mahama is the Chairman of the regional body, ECOWAS, and former President John Agyekum Kufuor heads the ECOWAS Observer Mission to Nigeria.

The NPP said it was confident that our two distinguished statesmen would play their respective roles with the requisite integrity to advance the cause of democracy in our neighbouring country.