By Kolawole Ojebisi
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organisation (WTO), has warned those trying to leverage his name to score cheap political point or push an agenda to desist.
Okonjo-Iweala stated this in a succinct tweet she made to clear her name from the news making the rounds since the wee hours of Thursday.
The former Minsiter of Finance stressed that people should stop using her name to spread falsehood. Though she didn’t mention anyone’s name, her statement was targeted at Simon Ekpa, a controversial Biafran agitator, who lives in Finland, but holding the fort for the detained leader of the Independent People’s of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
Ekpa, in a now-deleted post via X, had claimed the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have agreed to loan $57.5 billion to Biafra Republic Government in Exile (BRGIE).
In the post, he also alleged that Okonjo- Iweala assisted in facilitating the said loan.
“The World Bank and IMF have agreed to loan the sum of $57.5 billion to Biafra Republic Government in Exile (BRGIE) to form our government after December 2nd 2024 declaration of Biafra. I thank our sister, Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala for helping me to facilitate the loan,” he wrote.
Reacting, the WTO DG debunked the tweet.She appealed to those seeking to misuse her name to desist from doing so.
“I know no sensible person will believe what is contained in the outrageous tweet below but in these troubled times it is important to underscore that the statement is false. Again I enjoin all those seeking to misuse my name to desist!,” she wrote on X.
