President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday stepped up his campaign
for Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Nigerian candidate for the vacant seat of World
Trade Organisation Director-general.
Buhari had a video conference with Mr Charles Michel,
President of the European Council.
The latter reiterated Europe’s support for Nigeria’s
Okonjo-Iweala as the next Director-General of the World Trade Organisation
(WTO).
The President is leading Nigeria’s charge for the former
finance minister, to emerge as the first Black and female WTO DG.
President Buhari thanked the European Council for its
support for Nigeria’s candidate.
Also discussed during the conference were issues bordering
on debt relief for Africa, EU-African relations and recharge of the Lake Chad.
Buhari has always seized every opportunity to discuss the
recharge of Lake Chad, which has shrunk to less than one-third of its usual
size, and thrown about 130 million people, who depend on the Lake, into dire
straits.
President Buhari expressed appreciation to Mr Michel for
expected positive developments on the issues.
Okonjo-Iweala was presented to WTO council on Tuesday, as
the candidate with the broadest support, edging out the South Korean competitor
Yoo Myung-hee.
But the United States objected to Okonjo-Iweala and
canvassed instead for the Korean.
The 164 member WTO will meet on 9 November, six days after
the American election.
By its rules, all the 164 members must support the Nigerian
candidate.
Advertise on NigerianEye.com to reach thousands of our daily users
No comments
Post a Comment
Kindly drop a comment below.
(Comments are moderated. Clean comments will be approved immediately)
Advert Enquires - Reach out to us at NigerianEye@gmail.com