PHOTOS: Buhari Receives WTO DG Okonjo-Iweala In Aso Villa

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From Segun Amure, (The New Diplomat’s Abuja Bureau)

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday received the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) at the State House in Abuja, following her first homecoming on Saturday.

Okonjo-Iweala was led to the meeting by Professor Ibrahim Gambari, Chief of Staff to the President in company of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, as well as the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Niyi Adebayo.

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, was also among those who attended the meeting.

The Personal Assistant to the President on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, had earlier announced her arrival at the Presidential Villa in a tweet.

His tweet reads, “The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala arrives the State House, Abuja to meet President Muhammadu Buhari. This is her first visit to Nigeria since she assumed office two weeks ago.”

Okonjo-Iweala, 66, was nominated as Nigeria’s candidate to lead the WTO by President Buhari in June 2020.

She emerged as the first woman and first African to lead the international body in February 2021. However, her term has officially begun on March 1.

The term, which is renewable, will expire on August 31, 2025.

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