According to Cable News, an online medium, Obasanjo, who spoke on Saturday at the Babacar Ndiaye lecture series in Bali, Indonesia, expressed hope that Nigeria would soon have a president who could sign the agreement.
“Africa cannot overcome fears of trade wars till it achieves 50 percent intra-Africa trade,” he said at the ongoing World Bank Group/International Monetary Fund meetings.
“The AfCTA is a good idea and for Nigeria, hopefully, we will have a president that will be able to sign it because the one that is there now, his hands are too weak to sign.”
Nigeria was absent in March as leaders from 44 African countries signed the agreement to form a $2.5 trillion continental free-trade zone.
Daily Independent
