A FORMER United States Director to the African Development Bank (AfDB_Group), Mima Nedelcovych, has said the United States has no reason not to back Dr. the bank’s president, akin_adesina for second term in office..
In an interview with the Pan African Visions, an online medium, Nedelcovych said: “I am fully convinced with the responses provided by Adesina to the accusations of the whistleblowers. Unless the U.S. government is holding some secret that the American public is not aware of, I see absolutely no reason why it should not wholeheartedly support the re-election of President Akinwumi Adesina for a second term at the helm of the African Development Bank.
He listed some of the achievements of Adesina, including the establishment of the framework for furthering the critically important role that the AfDB is playing in the development and inclusive growth of the continent. “For me, those accusations that were made public and investigated by the Ethics Committee, have been responded to in great detail by President Adesina to my full satisfaction. Adesina and the AfDB have stepped up when most needed for an African institution to lead the way in the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic,” he said.
He said Adesina, in his vision and execution of the “High 5s” for Africa, has contributed an awful lot to the development of the African continent.“Frictions are always to be found in international organizations; it is the nature of the beast as every shareholder has the right to their own opinion. Having said that, I must admit that this “disagreement” is the starkest of any I have seen in the past between the US and the AfDB,” he added.
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