THE government of the United States of America is to dispatch a 40-member international delegation of observers including political and civil leaders, experts and regional specialists to Nigeria to monitor the April general elections.
The delegation, to be led by a former Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, will arrive in Nigeria on April 16 and remain in the country till April 24 after the elections might have been concluded.
The National Democratic Institute (NDI), which made this known in Abuja, yesterday, said it would finance the trip to Nigeria which, according to it, would be the 10th of its kind since 1999 when democracy took off in the country.
Also expected in Nigeria as members of the delegation are a former Prime Minister of Canada, Joe Clerk; former President of Liberia, Amos Sawyer; former President of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane and the Director of the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Justice Yvonne Mokgoro.
Other international observers expected to join the team includes Miss Beverly Baker-Kelly, former Deputy Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Ruwanda, Martin Luther King III, and Kenneth Wollack, President of the NDI.
According to the NDI, the delegation would be joined by a team of long-term observers from Cameroun, Canada, Cote d�Ivoire, Indonesia, Kenya, Sierra Leone and the United State.