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Nigeria's Minister of Foreign Affairs Aminu Wali has solicited Germany’s support to present Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, as candidate for President of African Development Bank (AfDB) during the Annual Meeting of the bank scheduled for Abidjan from May 25, 2015 to May 29, 2015, National Mirror reports.
The president of the bank is elected by the Board of Governors and serves a fi ve-year term, renewable for another term.
Germany, which is a nonregional member of the bank, has voting power on the Board of the Bank.
A statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja on Wednesday said Wali made the appeal during bilateral discussions with his German counterpart, Frank- Walter Steinmeier, in Berlin.
Similarly, Dr. Shola Taylor is running for the position of Deputy Secretary-General of ITU and the minister used the meeting with Steinmeier to solicit support for the candidate.
The ITU positions will be decided within the week in Busan, South Korea, during the organisation’s plenipotentiary conference. The election of the next Deputy Secretary-General of ITU is being keenly contested by candidates from Nigeria, Canada, Britain, Poland and Mauritania. In June, the AU Ministerial Candidature Committee failed to agree on a consensus candidate for Africa for the ITU job.
The committee had advised Nigeria and Mauritania to decide on one candidate but neither of the two was willing to withdraw.
#NationalMirror #AfDB #Nigeria
The president of the bank is elected by the Board of Governors and serves a fi ve-year term, renewable for another term.
Germany, which is a nonregional member of the bank, has voting power on the Board of the Bank.
A statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja on Wednesday said Wali made the appeal during bilateral discussions with his German counterpart, Frank- Walter Steinmeier, in Berlin.
Similarly, Dr. Shola Taylor is running for the position of Deputy Secretary-General of ITU and the minister used the meeting with Steinmeier to solicit support for the candidate.
The ITU positions will be decided within the week in Busan, South Korea, during the organisation’s plenipotentiary conference. The election of the next Deputy Secretary-General of ITU is being keenly contested by candidates from Nigeria, Canada, Britain, Poland and Mauritania. In June, the AU Ministerial Candidature Committee failed to agree on a consensus candidate for Africa for the ITU job.
The committee had advised Nigeria and Mauritania to decide on one candidate but neither of the two was willing to withdraw.
#NationalMirror #AfDB #Nigeria