Nigeria: Anyaoku - Why I Didn't Resign As Commonwealth Sec-Gen

20 January 2013

Nearly 18 years after he oversaw the suspension of his native country from the Commonwealth, former Commonwealth Secretary-General Emeka Anyaoku has said he could have resigned under the pressure of the circumstances if member countries had not specially reaffirmed their confidence in him.

In an interview with THISDAY in Lagos on his 80th birthday, Anyaoku explained also that he was motivated by a sense of obligation to the organisation's ethical and democratic principles in taking the views he had taken at the time.

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