The Secretary-General of the UN General Assembly, Antonio Guterres has congratulated Nigeria’s Tijjani Muhammad-Bande on his emergence as the President of the 74th UN General Assembly.
Guterres in a tweet on his official handle @antonioguterres said “Congratulations to Professor Tijjani Muhammad Bande of Nigeria, elected President of the 74th #UNGA session.”
The President of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces also congratulated Muhammad-Bande.
Garces said, “Tijjani brings with him an outstanding career both as scholar and diplomat.”
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The deputy secretary-general of the United Nations, Amina J. Mohammed has also congratulated Muhammad-Bande.
Mohammed is who Nigeria’s former minister of environment.
She said she looks forward to a fruitful collaboration.
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I join @antonioguterres to warmly congratulate #Nigeria’s Prof Tijjani Muhammad Bande for his election as @UN_PGA of the upcoming 74th #UNGA session. I look forward to continued fruitful collaboration with @mfespinosaEC President of the ongoing 73rd session
António Guterres
Congratulations to Professor Tijjani Muhammad Bande of Nigeria, elected President of the 74th #UNGA session.
My sincere appreciation to María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés for her outstanding work as @UN_PGA and her support for UN reform.
Muhammad-Bande was elected on Tuesday as the President of the 74th UN General Assembly.
He was the sole candidate for the position and was elected at the 87th plenary meeting of the Assembly in New York, the United States.
He is the second Nigerian to hold the office after the retired military officer and diplomat, Joseph Garba, and former permanent representative to the UN, Professor Joy Ogwu.
Tijjani before his new appointment was Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the U.N.
He will assume his new position in September 2019.
