The President, Major Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (Retd.), has approved the nomination of a former Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, for the position of director-general of the World Trade Organisation.
Buhari’s media aides, Bashir Ahmaad, confirmed this in a tweet on Thursday.
It was gathered that Buhari had earlier appointed Yonov Agah, Nigeria’s permanent representative to WTO, for the same position but has now withdrawn the candidacy from him.
The election will hold in Geneva, Switzerland in 2021.
The four-year term would then run from 2021 to 2025, after the former director-general of the organisation, Roberto Azevedo, stepped down a year to the end of his second term.