The 2012 flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will lead a team of election observers from the Commonwealth, in South Africa next month.

Nana Addo has been appointed by the Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Kamalesh Sharma to Chair of the Commonwealth Observer Mission for the South African elections which will take place on May 7, 2014.

Other members of the Observer Mission are: Dorothy Pine-McLarty OJ, Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Jamaica and Sheik Abdul Carimo Nordine Sau, who is the President of the National Elections Commission of Mozambique, constitute the membership of the team.

Nana Akufo-Addo will leave Ghana on the 1st of May for South Africa's national and provincial elections, which will last for two weeks.