Politics

Obasanjo Congratulates President Elect Joe Biden

By Web News 743

I join millions in the United States of America and in the rest of the world who felicitate with you, President-Elect Joe Biden, for your victory. It is victory of good over evil and it is not victory for you and the people of America alone, but victory for most people of the world, majority of whom watch helplessly as the world that had been steadily and painstakingly built since the end of the Second World War was being pulled down. Not that the world was perfect and equitable but it was reasonably predictable with some measure of rule of law and respect for international agreements and treaties. President-Elect Joe Biden must restore confidence in the role of America as the largest economy in the world which has a very significant responsibility for the peace, security, stability and progress of the world.

I felicitate with Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris as the first female Vice-President of the U.S. We in Africa are proud of her success. The first African-American President of the U.S., Barrack Obama, has Kenyan DNA in him and I am reasonably sure that the first African American female Vice President-Elect of the U.S. will have some Nigerian DNA in her as most of those taken to the Caribbean from Africa went from Nigeria of today.

Congratulations, once again, and please accept the assurances of my highest consideration.

Yours sincerely OLUSEGUN OBASANJO

Foreign

Biden Emerges 46th American President Elect

By Web News 789

Democratic Party candidtate in the 2020 United States presidential election, Mr Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has secured enough electoral college votes to become the 46th president of the country.
Mr Biden defeated incumbent Donald Trump after securing more the needed 270 electoral college votes needed for victory.
The 77 year old becomes the oldest man to be elected as US president while his running mate Kamala Harris becomes the first woman and African-American vice president.
While addressing his supporter who were celebrating his victory, the president-elect, Mr Joe Biden promised to work hard for every American and not only for those who voted for him.
He said, “I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide, but to unify; who doesn’t see red states and blue states, only sees the United States. To work with all my heart to win the confidence of all of you. “
“I am humbled by the trust and confidence you’ve placed in me,” Biden continues.
America, he adds, is about people.
Biden thanked African American voters in particular for lifting his campaign when he was behind in the primary contest.
aMeanwhile, the Trump campaign hasn’t lost hope yet, as A senior campaign official told newsmen they knew from the start this would be a drawn-out election fight.
The official added that no one at the campaign headquarters was surprised by the media projecting it for Biden.
They’re ready to fight, and have already been sorting through Trump’s “voter fraud” hotline.

CNN/Maxwell Oyekunle