Buhari Should Be Applauded For Backing Okonjo-Iweala For WTO Position – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has come out to hail President Muhammadu Buhari for backing Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in emerging as the first female and African Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

The party’s National Chairman, Mr. Uche Secondus revealed this via a statement issued by his Media Aide, Mr. Ike Abonyi, in Abuja on Wednesday.

According to him, Okonjo-Iweala’s achievement as the first female and African D-G of the WTO is historic for Nigeria and Buhari should be praised for putting aside political sentiment and supporting Okonjo-Iweala and Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), for the amazing international jobs.

He added that Okonjo-Iweala’s victory coming briefly after the re-election of Adesina as the AfDB President is good news for PDP since it confirms the party as one that brought Nigeria’s best heads into government.

His words, “Okonjo-Iweala’s victory is a reward for hardwork and commitment to excellence as she demonstrated in all positions she held nationally and internationally.

“This savoring news coming at this time that the nation is witnessing her worse is relieving and hope rising that a greater tomorrow awaits this land.”

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Muhammadu Buhari GCFR (born 17 December 1942) is a Nigerian politician currently serving as the President of Nigeria, in office since 2015. He is a retired major general in the Nigerian Army and previously served as the nation’s head of state from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985, after taking power in a military coup d’état. The term Buharism is ascribed to the Buhari military government.

He unsuccessfully ran for the office of president of Nigeria in the 2003, 2007, and 2011 general elections. In December 2014, he emerged as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the March 2015 general elections. Buhari won the election, defeating the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. This marked the first time in the history of Nigeria that an incumbent president lost to an opposition candidate in a general election. He was sworn in on 29 May 2015. In February 2019, Buhari was re-elected President, defeating his closest rival Atiku Abubakar by over 3 million votes.

Buhari has stated that he takes responsibility for anything over which he presided during his military rule, and that he cannot change the past. He has described himself as a “converted democrat”.

Muhammadu Buhari was born to a Fulani family on 17 December 1942, in Daura, Katsina State, to his father Hardo Adamu, a Fulani chief, and mother Zulaihat. He is the twenty-third child of his father. Buhari was raised by his mother, after his father died when he was about four years old.