Olisa Agbakoba
Agency report
A former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), has praised President Bola Tinubu for the speech he delivered at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on the equality of the African continent with other continents of the world.
President Tinubu while addressing world leaders at the 78th session of UNGA, said that unfair treatment and foreign exploitation have stunted Africa’s progress, stressing that Africa is not in any way inferior to other continents of the world.
Reacting to Tinubu’s address, Agbakoba in a post on X (formerly Twitter) said that no African leader has ever spoken for the entire African continent as the Nigerian President did.
Agbakoba in the post he tagged, ‘A well-received statement at UNGA!’ said, “Never in the history of UNGA has an African President spoken for the entire African continent, asserting that we are not beggars but equal partners with the geopolitical blocs of the world.
“Not since Kwame Nkrumah and his vision for a pan-African agenda for development has any African leader delivered a speech on behalf of the 54 nations of Africa.
“Africa has only itself to blame if it fails to build upon the significant policy speech delivered by President Tinubu at the United Nations General Assembly.
“Let all of us in Africa rally our collective energies and declare to the world that we are awake and not beggars but partners.”
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