President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has congratulated South Korea's President-elect, Ms. Park Geun-hye on her victory in the country's presidential elections.

President Jonathan, according to a statement signed by his spokesperson, Dr Reuben Abati, joins the rest of the world in applauding her historic emergence as her country's first female Head of State and Government.

The statement reads: "the President trusts that with her leadership abilities and long experience of politics at the highest levels of governance in her country, Ms. Park will fully justify the confidence reposed in her by millions of South Koreans who voted for her election on Wednesday this week."