With Nigerian elections being two days away, Retired President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday met with Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Olukayode Ariwoola.
The two held a consultative engagement ahead of the Saturday polls.
Uhuru, who is the head of the African Union Election Observers Mission (AUEOM), got to understand the state of the judiciary preparedness to handle any matters arising in the upcoming general election.
Ariwoola assured the AUEOM group of the judiciary’s readiness to resolve any arising electoral disputes, highlighting the hierarchy of the established judicial processes.
The Former President had earlier called on African Union poll observers to exercise impartiality during Nigeria's general elections on Saturday.
The AU-Kenya Peace Envoy said the observers' mandate is to witness the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria elect their leaders in a neutral environment as possible.
Earlier in the day, Uhuru held a meeting with the 90-member delegation of the AUEOM drawn from across 55 African Union member states.
The retired president told members of the AUEOM to stay true to the mission's mandate of observing the electoral process and ensuring it is conducted in a free, credible and transparent manner.
Uhuru flew to Nigeria on Tuesday to lead the AU poll observation mission.
Nigerians will go to their seventh General Election since Independence to elect a new President, a Vice President and members of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari is ineligible to run due to the constitutional term limit having been elected twice but Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the ruling All Progressives Congress candidate is a front-runner to succeed him.
Eighteen political parties are in the presidential contest, the highest number of parties in Nigeria’s election history, the previous record had stood at 73 political parties in the 2019 polls.
