With Love from Geneva… Okonjo-Iweala Commends Abike Dabiri-Erewa
Lionesses seldom share the same bathing corner as gazelles. This fact is embodied by the seeming sisterliness between the DirectorGeneral of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and the Chairman/CEO of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Honourable Abike Dabiri-Erewa. The former has, once again, hailed the latter, paving the way for good things to be said about Dabiri-Erewa.
Nigeria is winning all over with the works and accomplishments of Dr. Okonjo-Iweala at WTO. During the recent World Economic Forum (WEF), especially, Okonjo-Iweala shone brilliantly, motivating foreigners on the same level as her to look at Nigerians with new eyes. With Okonjo-Iweala shedding a bit of her limelight for Dabiri-Erewa, it is only natural that the latter would also win some honour for the nation.
It was Dabiri-Erewa who made the move to salute Okonjo-Iweala in Geneva, Switzerland.
Leading a delegation during the 14th Global Migration Forum, the NiDCOM boss brought her people to visit the WTO boss, reminiscing about the good old days and collectively contemplating Nigeria’s potential as a first-rate nation in the future.
Okonjo-Iweala, being her optimistic self, hailed Dabiri-Erewa as one of the changemakers in the nation, wearing the interests of the people on her shoulders. According to the WTO boss, Dabiri-Erewa’s NiDCOM was doing great work in the diaspora, borrowing the human resource and talent pool to overturn negative narratives about Nigeria.
It seems that from the perspective of OkonjoIweala, Dabiri-Erewa is helping to put Nigerians in the diaspora on the global map, securing them as would a mother lioness faced with hyenas intending to swallow her cubs. This aspect of Dabiri-Erewa has not changed since she took up the NiDCOM top position, even though she can be strict and unsmiling in her duties as Mama
Bear.
With Okonjo-Iweala’s ‘love from Geneva’ commendations, Dabiri-Erewa’s prospects just took on a new shine. Perhaps, and hopefully, they will get world leaders to listen more seriously to her arguments the next time the welfare of a Nigerian in the diaspora is at stake.