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    Nigeria’s Adesina Re-elected AfDB President

    Deborah AdegokeBy Deborah AdegokeAugust 27, 2020Updated:August 27, 2020No Comments2 Mins Read
    African Development Bank (AfDB) President Akinwumi Adesina speaks during an interview with Reuters in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania August 17, 2019. Picture taken August 17, 2019. REUTERS/Emmanuel Herman
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    Nigeria’s Akinwumi Adesina has been re-elected the African Development Bank (AfDB) President for a second five-year term.

    Presidential spokeswoman, Lauretta Onochie confirmed the news in a congratulatory tweet on Thursday.

    The election took place electronically on Thursday at the virtual annual general meeting of the bank.

    Adesina’s reappointment on Thursday at the helm of the 56-year-old bank is considered a formality as he is the sole candidate.

    The head of the African bank had appealed on Wednesday for a second term in office after a months-long storm over alleged corruption and poor governance that ended after he was cleared in an independent probe.

    In a speech at the AfDB’s annual meetings, Adesina formally requested a second term as president, declaring that he was “doing it with an acute sense of duty and commitment.”

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    “I do it to serve Africa and our bank, in an unbiased way, to the best of the abilities that God has given me,” he said, according to a statement issued by the bank.

    Adesina, the son of a farming family, became in 2015 the first Nigerian to head the bank, one of the world’s five biggest multilateral lenders and an important but often unseen player in economic development.

    He gained continent-wide recognition last October when the AfDB secured $115 billion (105 billion euros) in funding pledges, a move that doubled its capital and cemented its triple-A credit rating.

    The AfDB has estimated that the continent could lose at least $173.1 billion in GDP in 2020 and $236.7 billion in 2021 as a result of the economic fallout from the COVID-19 crisis.

    The bank has moved swiftly in response, setting up a coronavirus funding mechanism in April of up to $10 billion.

    The number of shareholders in the AfDB rose to 81, Adesina said, with the admission of Ireland. Fifty-four shareholders are African, while the others are from the Americas, Asia and Europe.

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