Sirleaf disclosed this while speaking with newsmen after her closed door meeting with Jonathan in Abuja.
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She was suspended last week by President Muhammadu Buhari following the query by the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Ameachi.
South Africa’s President and African Union chairperson Cyril Ramaphosa and the Nobel peace laureate and former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf have commended Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank, for his visionary leadership and bold initiatives to accelerate Africa’s development and to support the continent through the COVID-19 crisis.
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the ECOWAS Head of Election Observation Mission to Nigeria, has called on all candidates in the Presidential and National Assembly elections to accept the results “in good faith”.
The ECOWAS Head of Election Observer Mission, former Liberian President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on Monday, returned to her country following the postponement of the February 16 general elections.
The foreign observers said this in a statement shortly after the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, announced the postponement of the election on Saturday
The Heads of the international observation missions in Nigeria have urged the Independent National Electoral Commission to strictly adhere to the new dates it scheduled for the general elections.
ECOWAS has deployed 200 election observers across the six geopolitical zones of the country ahead of Saturday’s presidential and national assembly elections.
The Head of ECOWAS Observer Mission in Nigeria, former Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, has charged the Nigeria Police on credible elections in country.
The Head, ECOWAS Election Observer Mission in Nigeria, former Liberian President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, has tasked Nigeria to ensure a free, fair and credible election process that would uphold its leadership role in the continent.
Sirleaf made the promise when she was received by the Vice-President of ECOWAS Commission, Finda Koroma, at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Tuesday
She said this at a dinner in Lagos where Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, former president of Liberia, endorsed her presidential ambition.
Fifteen Liberians, including the son of former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, were banned from leaving the country on Wednesday.
Speaking to guests from Rwanda and around the world, President Sirleaf said: “I’m honoured to be this year’s recipient of the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership.
“The state of the economy that my administration inherited leaves a lot to do and to be decided,” the former international soccer star said in an address apparently aimed at lowering high expectations following his election victory at the end of last year to replace Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
The ban came into force after former leader, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, signed an executive order before stepping down.
Abubakar told the News Agency of Nigeria that the development was yet another testimony of the rapid growth and development of democracy in the African continent.
The party conveyed the decision in a statement issued by its Assistant Secretary General for Public Outreach, Mohammed Ali, on Sunday.
The Chairman of the commission, Jerome Korkoya, made the declaration after announcing the final results of the December 26 presidential runoff election at the NEC headquarters in Monrovia
This followed the counting of 98.1 per cent of ballots so far in the country’s presidential run-off election held on Tuesday by the National Elections Commission, with Weah winning 61.5 per cent