₦airaland Forum

AMINDA:
The truth is that an Atiku presidency will assemble the best minds to administer this country. Under the Obasanjo presidency, he and Obasanjo had a young and formidable team comprising of Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Nasir El-Rufai, Oby Ezekwesili and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the engine room of their presidency. Even Nuhu Ribadu was later scouted and brought in to run the newly created EFCC. Many of us thought a Tinubu presidency will replicate that given the team he put together in Lagos but it ended up being an all-Lagos affair with politics and cronyism taking the place of competence and capacity.

casualobserver:
It doesn’t work that way!

There is theory and there is reality. You are talking theory.

kayusely70:
President Trump would have blocked her candidature if Buhari didn't back her at that time.

Helinuss:
Oga, fact is different from sentiment ooo

Wickedfacts:
This one thinks it is a chieftaincy title.
For that WTO role, if Buhari didn't nominate her, she would have been instantly disqualified.

fergie001:
Go and read about the WTO, it will help you
I will ask again;.
Why did Trump not impose Myung-Hee since the US solely decides who heads the WTO?

Wickedfacts:
Big lie
She is representing Nigeria, not representing herself.

Buhari nominated her. She came to Naija to publicly thank Buhari.

Mccullum:
It's not Tinubu withholding Odun local government allocation, it's the court directive. Go and verify that.

casualobserver:
I am sure you also believe in Father Xmas!

Clearly you are one of those people who believes America spreads democracy and operates by the rules. The US is the world’s biggest hypocrite and they never honour agreements. They tell you one thing and do another. The so called international order based system was not designed for you, It was designed for the US. A country that brought about the fall of the British empire a supposed ally and held them by the balls is not the kind of country that plays fair. The US gets what it wan because it designed the system for them. You are naive if you think otherwise.

The reality of how things work in international bodies be it the UN, WTO etc, is that the US arm twists smaller voter nations by threatening them with sanctions, threatening diplomats with family visa withdrawals/ account closures and school withdrawals for their children and relatives.

If you don’t know this then you are not in a position to comment.

Okonjo got the job only because her appointment was eventually sanctioned by the US and she got that sanction by selling her soul and pledging her allegiance and loyalty to the US. She clearly did not want or need US citizenship or she would have done it long before the appointment.


I suggest you do some history lessons in the origins of these bodies post WW2 beyond the surface level.

This topic reminds me of when I was a child and my father would ask me if I wanted to do something as if I had a say in the matter when in reality (as I would later realize!) he had already made preparations or concluded the matter for the outcome he wanted. Asking me was only to make it seem as if ii had a say….in reality I didn’t and never could have.

By their fruits you shall know them .....Ycee, wherever you are, I am engaging this lost one only because of you

With all the long note you wrote, you still failed to answer the simple, question I asked , as to why Trump did not get his way with his only pick....but why you failed to answer and go on a detour is no surprise.

casualobserver:
First of all it was under Biden not Trump. Secondly that you present a case to me and I become convinced of the merit Of your argument enough to change my position does not mean without my support you can become WTO DG.

Nothing you have put forward supports your position that you can become DG WTO without US backing.

If she could have gotten the job without US support why did she need to convince them by getting US citizenship and swearing an oath of allegiance? At that stage of her life and career, US citizenship is a burden not a benefit which is whe she hadn’t done it till then even though she could.

This is Monday morning, I am not going back and forth on this issue.

givedemwotowoto:
Let’s say you apply for a job you’re qualified for. One of the requirements is that your father writes a reference for you.

You attend the interview and the candidates are narrowed down to 2 based on qualifications.

The most senior director in the company is supporting the other candidate.

You can’t get the job without his support. Suddenly the director gets fired and there’s hope for you.

The new director decides to support you, and that support gets you the job.

Will it be correct to say you got the job because of the reference your dad gave, not the support of the new senior director?

Sheuns:
So what was used to withhold Lagos LGA funds then?

LOL.

casualobserver:
First of all it was under Biden not Trump. Secondly that you present a case to me and I become convinced of the merit Of your argument enough to change my position does not mean without my support you can become WTO DG.

Nothing you have put forward supports your position that you can become DG WTO without US backing.

If she could have gotten the job without US support why did she need to convince them by getting US citizenship and swearing an oath of allegiance? At that stage of her life and career, US citizenship is a burden not a benefit which is whe she hadn’t done it till then even though she could.

This is Monday morning, I am not going back and forth on this issue.

fergie001:
Listen, the election of the WTO is by negative consensus.

All members must back you but most especially, 5 Groups are the building blocks with which you must secure support. In the WTO, it's back or block.

China & Japan
The US
The EU
The Africa Group
Pacific & Carribean States

All 164 countries must back. Even if Nigeria blocks, the person won't be DG. However, these ones I mentioned weild some power. The US couldn't impose Myung-Hee because others others blocked her. That's the easiest way I can explain it.

Nword22:
Who is buhari to Trump, the lifeless one? Did you know that Noly is also an American citizen like Trump.

Obaaderemi2:
Number one, I wouldn't even be there in the first place if my father decides to favour my sister instead of me.
Then the USA does not unilaterally decides who becomes WTO Director.
So she has Buhari to thank more for her appointment than any other person.
That's what everyone has been pointing out to you, which you know but because you hate the APC which Buhari represented you are arguing.

fergie001:
Listen, the election of the WTO is by negative consensus.

All members must back you but most especially, 5 Groups are the building blocks with which you must secure support. In the WTO, it's back or block.

China & Japan
The US
The EU
The Africa Group
Pacific & Carribean States

All 164 countries must back. Even if Nigeria blocks, the person won't be DG. However, these ones I mentioned weild some power. The US couldn't impose Myung-Hee because others others blocked her. That's the easiest way I can explain it.

fergie001:
Says who?
She is at the WTO today because of politics. No matter how brilliant she is, she can't be DG without the support of her home country. If Buhari said No, she won't be DG of any International Organisation.

Again, Atiku was instrumental in bringing her to Nigeria from the World Bank and then introduced her to OBJ. So, it's listen to them and politely say NO.
It is part of the rules that anybody who must contest must get an endorsement from his/her own country If your President or home Govt doesn't endorse, you fail nomination instantly.

Obaaderemi2:
Number one, I wouldn't even be there in the first place if my father decides to favour my sister instead of me.
Then the USA does not unilaterally decides who becomes WTO Director.
So she has Buhari to thank more for her appointment than any other person.
That's what everyone has been pointing out to you, which you know but because you hate the APC which Buhari represented you are arguing.

nairamaniac:
You are getting it wrong and twisted.

Okonjo Iwela's CV was far stronger than the Government's required endorsement.

It's like a King shows up to see you inside your house, but needs the gateman to screen the king and open the gate for him.

Would this in anyway score the gateman's role above the king?

Please she didn't need to be involved in Nigeria politic's to get to wherever she is today in WTO.

It's a privilege to any government in power to have played a role to have endorse her.

He family(parents) are also elites and Royalties in their states.

I have known about them for past 30years, even before I knew about okonjo iweala.

It's not a small family at all.

They are more prestigious tham some presidents we have had in Nigeria.

givedemwotowoto:
It’s not a straight back or block. You can back, stay neutral or block. Yoo Myung-hee wasn’t blocked by other countries. They didn’t oppose her being the WTO DG, they only preferred NOI. It was the U.S. who opposed and blocked NOI.

It’s like a job interview where 2 candidates are finalists but one candidate is more qualified and preferred, then a senior director blocks her.

nairamaniac:
Yoir father would favour you over your sister if you would make him more proud than your sister.
And if you have a stronger CV than your sister and bring more glory to the family.

fergie001:
I like the point you made here, but you forget too easily

You forget the man, Buhari.

Obaaderemi2:
He is too young to understand that the way of the world is not straight forward

givedemwotowoto:
You’re in the wrong argument. This is way above your head. The person you should be arguing with is someone who is arguing that it’s NOI’s parents who made her get the job because if they didn’t bring her into this world and give her good education, she wouldn’t have been qualified in the first place to apply.

This argument you joined is not the right now. The intellect is not there.

Obaaderemi2:
Life is not that straight forward. If my father trusts my sister more he could favor her above me. The same Buhari once supported a non Nigerian Fulani for an international organization job over a more qualified Nigerian for primordial reasons

fergie001:
I like the point you made here, but you forget too easily

You forget the man, Buhari.

nairamaniac:
even buhari as clueless as he was, was conscious of what adds to his own CV that needed his endorsement.

Remember the African Development Bank man from Jonathan's Government that needed buhari s endorsement to become the head?

fergie001:
Jonathan nominated Adesina.

Again, Buhari is never conscious perhaps he was better advised at the time following the accusation of his rabid ethnocentrism. A Buhari will have blocked NOI and nothing will happen, it's simple.

NOI's nomination adds nothing to his CV. He is the President like adds nothing fr.