7 November 2008
Lagos — Former Commonwealth Secretary, General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, yesterday hailed the election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States of America, describing it as "a milestone in modern history and a boost of self- confidence of African-Americans and peoples of Africa and African descent everywhere."
In a statement issued in Gland, Switzerland , where he was presiding over a meeting of the Executive Committee of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Chief Anyaoku said "Obama, as the elect most powerful man on earth is a ringing endorsement of the inherent quality of human beings irrespective of racial and cultural differences."
According to Chief Anyaoku,"By electing Barack Obama as their 44th president, the Americans have demonstrated to the world their belief in the concept of a common humanity," adding "They have successfully confronted the abiding legacy of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, which is covert and sometimes overt racist discrimination against the people of Africa and their descendants."
In the same vein, Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, has said that Senator Barack Obama's campaigns and success in the presidential bid have thrown a great challenge to us as Nigerians.
Ikuforoji, who was reacting to Obama's victory at the yesterday's plenary session maintained that this victory which is widely acknowledged and celebrated across the world has effectively removed the greatest obstacle of nepotism and racial discrimination prevalent in our society, particularly among the so called developed world.
He explained that by this resolution of the Americans, it is absolutely clear that the electorate in the part of the world have given us enough courage and reason to celebrate in view of the economic crisis ravaging the United States and which is spreading globally.
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NIGERIA IS A CONTRIBUTING CAUSE, OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS RAVAGING THE UNITED STATES AND WHICH IS SPREADING GLOBALLY. WE OFFERED 5 MILLION JOBS TO NIGERIA AND THE SAME TO USA. THE PEOPLE IN POWER REFUSE TO PASS THIS INFO TO THE PRESIDENT. “BY THE WAY HE WAS THE PRESIDENT OF ALL BLACK PEOPLE ON EARTH BEFORE OBAMA BECAME PRESIDENT –ELECT”. TONY