Nigeria's President-Elect Lobbies for Adesina as AfDB President

General Muhammadu Buhari, the president-elect of Nigeria, has requested the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to support the candidacy of Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina as the next president of the African Development Bank (ADB)

Nigeria's Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Akin Adesina

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Candidates for the election of the next Bank President : Akinwumi A. ADESINA, Nigeria, Sufian AHMED, Ethiopia, Jaloul AYED, Tunisia, Kordjé BEDOUMRA,Chad, Cristina DUARTE, Cabo Verde, Samura M. W. KAMARA, Sierra Leone, Thomas Z. SAKALA, Zimbabwe, Birama Boubacar SIDIBE, Mali

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