The Federal Government has sent a delegation to New York in a final drive for Nigeria to emerge as President of the United Nations General Assembly, UNGA.
Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the UN Tijjani Muhammad Bande is standing in the election which holds tomorrow in New York, if elected, he would be the second Nigerian to preside over the assembly after Joseph Nanven Garba who held the position in 1989.
The Presidency of the UNGA changes every year between the five geographic groups: African, Asian, Eastern European, Latin American and Caribbean, and Western European.
The present UNGA President, Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garcès who is from Ecuador, assumed the presidency in September 2018.
Last month, she dropped the hint that a Nigerian will be succeeding her as the UNGA president. Presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu said the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mustapha Sulaiman, is leading the federal government’s delegation. Others are; the Director-General, National Intelligence Agency, NIA Ahmed Rufai Abubakar and Executive Secretary, Petroleum Technology Development Fund, Bello Aliyu Gusau.
