{"id":50389,"date":"2024-04-04T11:30:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T11:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ghana-s-president-endorses-kenya-opposition-leader-s-bid-for-au-commission\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T11:28:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T11:28:24","slug":"ghana-s-president-endorses-kenya-opposition-leader-s-bid-for-au-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ghana-s-president-endorses-kenya-opposition-leader-s-bid-for-au-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana’s President endorses Kenya opposition leader’s bid for AU Commission chairmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kenyan Head of State, William Ruto, secured Ghana\u2019s crucial vote for Odinga, during his visit to the West African country on Wednesday, April 4, 2024.<\/p>\n

President Ruto, in his address after holding talks with Akufo-Addo, said Kenya will in turn support Ghana\u2019s candidature for the Secretary General of the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour Excellency, my dear brother, I thank you most sincerely for accepting to support Kenya\u2019s candidature for the position of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (2025-2028) which has been initiated following comprehensive stakeholder-engagement across government,\u201d Ruto said during the Kenya-Ghana Joint Media Briefing at Jubilee House, Accra.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn our part, I have assured His Excellency that Kenya will support the Republic of Ghana for the candidature of Hon Shirley Botchwey, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, for the position of Secretary General of the Commonwealth for the period 2024-2029,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

President Ruto further affirmed that Kenya\u2019s bid for the coveted AUC seat is informed by the country\u2019s leading role in enhancing and sustaining the Pan-African agenda in terms of independence and sovereignty, peace and security, development and prosperity, as well as sustainability and climate action.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope to work with all as we try to achieve Africa\u2019s 2063 agenda,\u201d President Ruto stated while referring to Africa’s development blueprint to achieve inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development in a period of 50 years. <\/p>\n

Akufo-Addo\u2019s endorsement comes weeks after Rwanda\u2019s President Paul Kagame, Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Tanzania\u2019s Samia Suluhu and Salva Kiir of South Sudan threw their weight behind Odinga\u2019s candidacy.<\/p>\n

Kagame announced his support for the 79-year-old former Kenyan prime minister days after their meeting in Rwanda.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s no secret. I told him Rwanda would support him. I wish him well,\u201d Kagame said in an interview with Kenya\u2019s NTV, broadcasted on March 12.<\/p>\n

Kagame heaped praise on Odinga, citing his previous work as the African Union High Representative for Infrastructure Development.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe [Odinga] did a good job at that. He had a full grasp of it,\u201d Kagame said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only will we support him to be there, but also when he is there, we will support him for Africa to succeed,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Odinga is seeking to succeed Chad\u2019s Moussa Faki in elections slated for February 2025.
\nThe leader of the Azimio la Umoja \u2013 One Kenya coalition in Kenya received a major boost in March after the African Union Executive Council unanimously resolved that candidates for the position of the next chairperson of the AU Commission would be nominated by the Eastern African regional States<\/p>\n

So far, only Odinga and former Somali Foreign Minister Fawzia Yusuf Adam have announced their candidacy for the top AU role.<\/p>\n

Adam, who joined the race in February, is aiming to become the second woman to lead the continental body after South Africa\u2019s Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who served between 2012 and 2017.<\/p>\n

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Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga\u2019s bid for the chairmanship of the African Union Commission (AUC) has received yet another boost after endorsement from Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":2000065363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[191],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-50389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-serge-iradukunda"],"bylines":[{"id":191,"name":"Serge Iradukunda","slug":"serge-iradukunda","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":130}],"contributors":[{"id":191,"name":"Serge Iradukunda","slug":"serge-iradukunda","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":130}],"featured_image":{"id":2000065363,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2024-04-04_at_1.07_13_pm.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2024-04-04_at_1.07_13_pm.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2024-04-04_at_1.07_13_pm.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2024-04-04_at_1.07_13_pm.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2024-04-04_at_1.07_13_pm.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2024-04-04_at_1.07_13_pm.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000065363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50389"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=50389"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=50389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}