BREAKING: At Last, Nigeria’s Dr Okonjo-Iweala Emerges 1st Female DG Of WTO—–History has been made by Nigeria’s very own former Minister of Finance, Dr. Okonjo-Iweala as she emerged the first African and the first female to attain the position of Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
She eliminated South Korea’s current Trade Minister, Yoo Myung-hee in a fierce battle for the coveted job on Monday night.
The Genius Media reports that influential nations within the global power bloc had a rigorous time to working in Nigeria’s favour with high-level negotiations even as China reportedly tilted the dynamics.
The New Diplomat Europe’s outpost office gathered that with the EU nations and the United States moving in the opposite direction, a move that triggered a deadlock between the two powerful geopolitical allies for the first time in many years, it was the decisive and quiet support of China that finally tipped the scales in Okonjo-Iweala’s favour.
A top diplomat in Geneva told The New Diplomat in confidence: “China quietly changed the game. They said nothing openly but silently they, deftly China voted in Nigeria’s favour.”
