{"id":3247,"date":"2023-09-21T07:23:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T07:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=3247"},"modified":"2023-09-21T07:23:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T07:23:50","slug":"no-leader-has-spoken-for-africa-like-tinubu-did-at-unga-says-agbakoba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/09\/21\/no-leader-has-spoken-for-africa-like-tinubu-did-at-unga-says-agbakoba\/","title":{"rendered":"No leader has spoken for Africa like Tinubu did at UNGA, says Agbakoba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"caps\"><strong>Olisa Agbakoba, former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), says no African leader has spoken for the continent the way President Bola Tinubu did <\/strong><strong>at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"acssf62a8\">Tinubu had on Wednesday <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecable.ng\/full-speech-tinubu-addresses-world-leaders-at-78th-unga\"><b>addressed<\/b><\/a><span class=\"acssf62a8\"> world leaders at the 78th session of UNGA, during which he said unfair treatment and foreign exploitation have stunted Africa\u2019s progress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"acssf62a8\">In a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oagbakoba\/status\/1704544379891782010?t=qEzXT-Wnv_m7egUam_Sv3g&amp;s=19\">post<\/a><\/strong> on the X platform, Agbakoba said the speech was a \u201cwell-received statement\u201d with which the president asserted that \u201cAfricans are not beggars but equal partners\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"acssf62a8\">\u201cA well-received statement at UNGA!,\u201d Agbakoba wrote.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"acssf62a8\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"acssf62a8\">\u201cNot 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.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"acssf62a8\">He added that Africa would have itself to blame if it failed to act on Tinubu\u2019s significant policy speech.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Let all of us in Africa rally our collective energies and declare to the world that we are awake and not beggars but partners,\u201d Agbakoba said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olisa Agbakoba, former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), says no African leader has spoken for the continent the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3249,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions\/3249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}