{"id":29184,"date":"2020-08-27T13:45:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T13:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=29184"},"modified":"2020-08-27T13:45:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T13:45:34","slug":"akinwunmi-adesina-re-elected-as-afdb-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/akinwunmi-adesina-re-elected-as-afdb-president","title":{"rendered":"Akinwunmi Adesina re-elected as AfDB President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina has been re-elected as the President of the Africa Development Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Adesina was re-elected by the Board of Governors of the Bank at the ongoing AfDB\u2019s virtual annual meeting in Abidjan on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s Personal Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie confirmed the development while congratulating Adesina on her Twitter page.<\/p>\n<p>Onochie wrote, \u201cOur very own Akinwumi Akin Adesina has been reaffirmed as the President of the African Development Bank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to our supportive President @MBuhari who mobilized support for our own Adesina and why not! Adesina has been proven to be above boards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST had reported that an Independent Review Panel exonerated Akinwumi Adesina, of any ethical wrongdoings.<\/p>\n<p>The panel was set up by AfDB Bureau of Governors, following a complaint by the United States.<\/p>\n<p>It was discovered that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2020\/07\/28\/afdb-nigeria-behind-adesina-buhari-hails-clearance-by-independent-panel\/\">allegations against Adesina<\/a>\u00a0were properly considered and dismissed by the committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina has been re-elected as the President of the Africa Development Bank. Adesina was re-elected by the Board of Governors of the Bank at the ongoing AfDB\u2019s virtual annual meeting in Abidjan on Thursday. President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s Personal Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie confirmed the development while congratulating Adesina on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":14873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1220,706],"class_list":["post-29184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-adesina","tag-afdb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Akinwunmi Adesina re-elected as AfDB President - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina has been re-elected as the President of the Africa Development Bank.Adesina was\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/akinwunmi-adesina-re-elected-as-afdb-president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Akinwunmi Adesina re-elected as AfDB President\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina has been re-elected as the President of the Africa Development Bank.Adesina was\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/akinwunmi-adesina-re-elected-as-afdb-president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-27T13:45:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/08\/akinwunmi-adesina3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"450\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/akinwunmi-adesina-re-elected-as-afdb-president#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/akinwunmi-adesina-re-elected-as-afdb-president\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Akinwunmi Adesina re-elected as AfDB President\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-27T13:45:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/akinwunmi-adesina-re-elected-as-afdb-president\"},\"wordCount\":159,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/akinwunmi-adesina-re-elected-as-afdb-president#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/08\/akinwunmi-adesina3.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Adesina\",\"AfDB\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/akinwunmi-adesina-re-elected-as-afdb-president#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/akinwunmi-adesina-re-elected-as-afdb-president\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/akinwunmi-adesina-re-elected-as-afdb-president\",\"name\":\"Akinwunmi Adesina re-elected as AfDB President - 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