President Muhammadu Buhari has lauded the outgoing President of Niger Republic, Mahamadou Issoufou and the citizens of the country for the peaceful and successful conduct of the presidential and parliamentary elections on December 27.
President Buhari spoke on Thursday at an audience with Architect Namadi Sambo, former Nigerian Vice-President and leader of the ECOWAS Electoral Observation Mission (EOM), appointed to oversee the elections.
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Buhari said President Issoufou deserved to be congratulated on how he organised and conducted the elections.
“I have been very, very impressed by what I have been seeing and hearing. I will call to congratulate him. Issoufou is going home with honour and grace. All is well that ends well,” he said in a statement issued by his spokesman, Garba Shehu.
President Buhari, who also hailed the work of the ECOWAS Mission to the Niger Republic under Architect Sambo, described it as very impressive.
In his remarks, the former Vice-President described the elections as “successful, free and fair. The elections went well. No incident had created an alarm”.
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