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EU and OAU send observers

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    The EU and the OAU plan to send 150 observers to monitor the elections, their delegations announced yesterday, according to news reports. Some 100 EU observers are to be deloyed in nearly all of Nigeria’s 36 states, agencies reported Hans-Gunther Sulimma, Germany’s ambassador to Nigeria, as saying. He added that the EU delegation was the largest single foreign monitoring group and expressed confidence that “our presence in Nigeria will make a significant contribution to the successful implementation of the current transitional process”.

    The 50-member OAU team is made up of African statesmen and women, diplomats, lawyers as well as officials from the OAU secretariat, news agencies said.

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