Nigeria was not snubbed in the 2024 UN Human Rights Council election, as some reports have claimed.
Special Adviser to the President, Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga who made the clarification in a statement yesterday, explained that Nigeria did not stand as a candidate for this cycle of elections, just like it did not stand for election in 2023 when a Nigerian medium reported that the country earned three votes.
According to him, given Nigeria’s continued leadership in fostering African unity, the nation focused on supporting the endorsed candidates to promote collective African representation, thus the regional bloc endorsed Benin and Gambia, both members of ECOWAS, for the 2025-2027 term.