{"id":34849,"date":"2020-10-09T10:52:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T10:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=34849"},"modified":"2020-10-09T10:52:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T10:52:49","slug":"au-throws-weight-behind-okonjo-iweala-for-wto-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=34849","title":{"rendered":"AU throws weight behind Okonjo-Iweala for WTO position"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The chairman of the African Union commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has declared that Nigeria\u2019s former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is \u201cby far the best qualified candidate to lead the World Trade Organisation (WTO)\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mahamat who gave his backing in a statement issued on Thursday said that; \u201cThe African Union strongly supports her candidacy and calls on member states and friends of the continent to vote for her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms Okonjo-Iweala<\/a> and South Korean trade minister Yoo Myung-hee are the final two candidates \u2013 from an initial list of eight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mrs Iweala will come head to head with Yoo Myung-hee, also a female, in an epoch-making final that will choose for the first time a woman head in the twenty five-year old Geneva based institution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The grand finale will equally make a milestone on racial terms in the sense it is bound to produce either the first African director-general of the WTO or its first South-Korean head should the electoral victory swing in the way of Iweala or Myung-hee in early November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly, both women rode on the back of 27-member European Union<\/a> to come this far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Nigerian would be the first African to be director general of the WTO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has had two spells as finance minister in her country, and a short stint as foreign affairs minister. She also spent time at the World Bank as Managing Director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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