- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has expressed her joy at meeting former president Olusegun Obasanjo during the AU meeting in Addis Ababa
- The former Nigeria's finance and coordinating minister for the economy says she also tapped from Obasanjo's wisdom
- Iweala also met former Nigeria head of state, Abdusalami Abubakar and Thabo Imbeki of South Africa
Nigeria’s former minister of finance and coordinating minister for the economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has expressed her joy at meeting her former boss, Olusegun Obasanjo, during the AU meeting in Addis Ababa.
Iweala who posted picture of of her meeting with Obasanjo and former head of state Abdulsalami Abubakar on Facebook and Twitter, noted that she tapped from the wisdom of the elder statesmen.
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Obasanjo, had recently at the University of Oxford, UK, spoke on his reasons from hiring Iweala from the World Bank
“Africa needs leadership and it needs it now and all the time. Proactivity as an element of transformational leadership emphasizes the need for governance to be led actively by a discerning and quick thinking leadership,” he said.
“Again, I should reiterate my experience shortly after I was elected. I engaged in what maybe called shuttle diplomacy in governance instead of the going cap in hand for donor dictated partnership terms that often saw our leaders accepting all manner of conditionalities.
“The lesson here is that, proactive leadership was critical at the time in Nigeria’s history. I commenced the campaign for debt relief early in my first term and got sympathetic hearings, but not much action from political leaders of creditor countries.
“After my first term, I realized that my talks at the highest political levels needed follow-up at the levels below. So, I head-hunted Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala from the World Bank, appointing her as Nigeria’s minister of finance,” Obasanjo had said.
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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had reported that President Muhammadu Buhari insisted that the fight against corruption had come to stay in Nigeria.
Buhari made the statement when unveiling the African Union’s anti-graft campaign at the 30th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the AU, on Sunday, January 28.
He reiterated the commitment of Nigeria to the continuous fight against corruption. The president advocated for strong institutions as necessary condition for winning the fight against corruption.
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Source: Naija.ng