Joe Biden
Kamala
Harris
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has congratulated Mr
Joe Biden on his projected victory in the United States
presidential election.
He commended the former US vice-president in an open letter
addressed to the 77-year-old American on Saturday.
Biden, who contested the election on the platform of the
Democratic Party with Kamala Harris as his running mate, will be
the 46th president of America when sworn-in into office.
In his congratulatory message, Obasanjo tasked the newly elected
President to restore confidence in the role of America as the
largest economy in the world which has very significant
responsibility for the peace, security, stability and progress of
the world.
According to him, the election is a victory of good over evil
and not just for America only but for most people of the world.
The former president lamented that the majority of the people
had watched helplessly as the world was being pulled down.
He also suggested that Harris, who is set to be the first
African-American Vice President and the first female to hold the
position, would have some Nigerian DNA in her
Read the elder statesman’s letter to Biden
below:
November 7, 2020
His Excellency,
Mr. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.,
President-Elect of the United States of America,
USA.
MESSAGE OF CONGRATULATIONS TO U.S. PRESIDENT-ELECT JOE BIDEN AND
VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT KAMALA HARRISI 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.OLUSEGUN OBASANJO.