mourns former United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Walter
Carrington
President Muhammadu Buhari has mourned the former United
States Ambassador to Nigeria, Walter Carrington.
The President in a tribute on Thursday evening described the
late diplomat as Nigeria’s ‘Long Time Friend’ who was
courageous.
He said the late Carrington “openly supported the people of this
country when they fought for the return of democracy following the
annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential elections won by the
late Moshood Abiola.”
President Buhari said the story of the Nigerian democracy under
the Fourth Republic will not complete without a mention of the
heroic roles of the likes of Ambassador Carrington.
“On behalf of my family, the government and people of Nigeria, I
commiserate with the family of the deceased, his friends and
admirers as well as the government and people of the United
States,” the President added.
Carrington
Biography
The late Walter Carrington was an American diplomat who served
as the United States Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
to Senegal and Nigeria.
He served as the US Ambassador to Senegal from 1980 to 1981 and
was appointed by U.S President Bill Clinton in 1993 as the U.S.
Ambassador to Nigeria, where he remained until 1997.
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His ties to Nigeria were deep; he had married into a Nigerian
family and had lived in three Nigerian cities since the late
1960s.
In 1981, he was named Director of the Department of
International Affairs of Howard University. He published several
articles on Africa. He served as US Ambassador to Nigeria from 1993
to 1997. On 1 September 2004, Carrington was named the Warburg
Professor of International Relations at Simmons College in
Boston.
Carrington is a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. In
1997, he received an honorary doctorate (Doctor of Humane Letters)
from Livingstone College, North Carolina.
In 1991, he published Africa in the Minds and Deeds of Black
American Leaders (with Edwin Dorn).
In 2010, he published A Duty to Speak: Refusing to Remain Silent
in a Time of Tyranny, a compilation of his speeches supporting
democracy and human rights in Nigeria during the Abacha military
dictatorship.
He has written many Africa-related articles for national
magazines.
The late US ambassador to Nigeria died on Tuesday at the age of
90.
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