By Linus Aleke

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), said, the legislative elections held in the Benin Republic on the 8th of January were peaceful.

Speaking after observing the election process in Cotonou, the Head of the ECOWAS Election Observer Mission, Mr Raimundo Pereira applauded the people and government of the Republic of Benin for a peaceful election.

He said: “Generally, the election was conducted in a calm and peaceful atmosphere”.

The Directorate of Communication, ECOWAS Commission, in a statement, said, the Election Observation Mission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS–EOM) to the Legislative Elections in the Republic of Benin, led by Raimundo Pereira, former President of the Republic of Guinea Bissau, observed the Legislative Elections, which held on January 8, 2023.

The statement disclosed that ECOWAS deployed forty Election Observers to all the capitals of the twelve administrative departments in Benin to monitor the electoral process.

“The Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government is determined to accompany the people and the government of the Republic of Benin through the Legislative Elections in line with the ECOWAS Supplementary Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance of 2001,” the statement concluded.