Nigeria: Goodluck Jonathan Surrender to Zionist Israeli Diktat

8 January 2015
opinion

LAST Tuesday, December 30, 2014, will go down as one of the darkest days in the practice of Nigerian foreign policy. That day, the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, BETRAYED the proud history of Nigeria's support for the rights of oppressed peoples, long regarded as the central core of our country's foreign policy since independence in 1960. By courtesy of a last-minute decision to abstain from voting, after earlier assurances, Nigeria helped to defeat a resolution at the UN Security Council, calling for an end to Zionist Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories by 2017.

Nigerian "YES" vote would have paved the way to compelling the racist Zionist Israel state to end the occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, occupied since 1967. The resolution needed nine votes from the 15-member Security Council but it fell short by a single vote, the promised Nigerian vote. But the Nigerian envoy, Joy Ogwu, at the prompting of Goodluck Jonathan, ABSTAINED along with Britain, Lithuania, the Republic of Korea and Rwanda!

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