CHAIRMAN of the Authority of Heads of State of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Ghanaian President, John Draman Mahama, on Monday, met with President Goodluck Jonathan, expressing the hope that Saturday’s presidential election will go peacefully.

Speaking after the meeting which took place at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja, he said his visit was part of ECOWAS effort to ensure that the five countries in the sub-region facing elections conduct the exercise in peaceful and transparent environments.

He said the election in Nigeria would showcase it to the world as a country with democratic tenets.

Mahama said ECOWAS had undertaking in all the countries facing elections with long term electoral observer missions, which had been monitoring the electoral process in the build-up to the elections and beyond.

He said ECOWAS had received several monitoring reports and was working together with the electoral commissions of the countries involved.

“We have tried to ensure that obstacles to free and fair elections are removed and to ensure that election are free and fair, with this, people would accept the results of those elections.

“As chair of the authorities of Heads of State of ECOWAS, I have extended my solidarity to the Nigerian people through my brother, President Jonathan, to see that the whole of ECOWAS and also the international community is in solidarity with Nigeria to have a very transparent election, so that the democratic process in Nigeria will be better entrenched,” he said.