The World Trade Organisation's director (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has described as "false" the claims in a purported statement alleging that she is being attacked for visiting President Bola Tinubu.
That statement circulating is false, Infact wickedly false designed to create mischief among Nigerians. Please disregard the statement," the WTO DG tweeted.
Okonjo-Iweala was a guest of the President on Tuesday, August 8, 2023.
Speaking after the meeting, which also had Minister-designate Dr Ali Pate in attendance, the former minister said her discussion with Tinubu centred around job creation for young people and ways to support women and children, whom she said bore the adverse effects of the economic hardship in the country.
The meeting comes barely two months after the duo met at the Global Pact Summit in Paris, France, hosted by President Emmanuel Macron.
Okonjo-Iweala was a two-term Finance Minister between 2003 and 2006 and from 2011 to 2015, the first woman to hold the position.
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