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Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Monday was at the presidential villa, Abuja for a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.

She was accompanied to the Aso Villa by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Niyi Adebayo and the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Zubair Dada.

Okonjo-Iweala is running to become the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and has already emerged as one of the final two candidates for the election.

President Buhari has since expressed his support and that of his administration to her effort to clinch the plump post.Okonjo-Iweala Meets Buhari

Her visit to the presidential villa is apparently in connection with  the election which would be finally determined by October, 27.

The New Diplomat reports that the last phase and final round of selection will effectively determine the fate of Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala and South Korea’s Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee, as they fight head-to-head for the exalted seat of WTO DG.

The 25 year old WTO is set to have its first female leader after Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala and South Korea’s  Myung-hee made it through Thursday to the final run-off, a WTO spokesman had announced.

According to the Geneva-based organisation, a winner will emerge on October 27 and the decision will be officially announced to the world on November 7.

'dotun Akintomide
'dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide's journalism works intersect business, environment, politics and developmental issues. Among a number of local and international publications, his work has appeared in the New York Times. He's a winner of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Award. Currently, the Online Editor at The New Diplomat, Akintomide has produced reports that uniquely spoke to Nigeria's experience on Climate Change issues. When Akintomide is not writing, volunteering or working on a media project, you can find him seeing beautiful sites like the sandy beaches that bedecked the Lagos coastline.

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