WTO’s spokesperson Keith Rockwell had described Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala as the best candidate for its keenly contested top job.
Ex-finance minister Okonjo Iweala is vying for the DG role.
This anomie, this disruption of the habitual order of society, won’t abate as long as the conditions that drive them persist
The global trade body says the Nigerian is a shoo-in for the first female director-general.
The Nigerian former finance minister was elected on Thursday.
The United States is backing South Korean Yoo Myung-hee to be director-general of the World Trade Organisation.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the first African woman to stand for election and reach the final stage of selection for the WTO DG post.
![South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. [CREDIT: Official Twitter handle of Ngozi]](https://gazettengr.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Ramaphosa-and-Okonjo-Iweala.jpeg)
The former Nigerian finance minister faces a South Korean woman after candidates of the United Kingdom, Kenya and Saudi Arabia were eliminated.
