By Our Correspondent
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has congratulated the 46th president-elect of the United States of America, Joe Biden and his vice, Kamala Harris, over their electoral victory in the recent presidential election in that country.
Obasanjo, in his congratulatory message to the duo said:’ I 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.”
OBJ noted that though the world was
not perfect and equitable, but that it was reasonably predictable with some measure of the rule of law and respect for international agreements and treaties.
He, therefore, stressed the need for Biden to restore confidence in the role of America, a country he described as the largest economy in the world with a very significant responsibility for the peace, security, stability and progress of the world.
On the Vice President-elect, the former president expressed the conviction she had Nigerian blood, adding that Harris’s lineage might be that of one of the Nigerians taken as slaves to the Caribbean from Africa during the colonial era.
“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,” he added.
Going memory lane, Obasanjo recalled that the first African-American President of the U.S., Barrack Obama, had Kenyan DNA.
He said he was “reasonably sure that the first African-American female Vice President-Elect of the U.S. would have some Nigerian DNA in her as most of those taken to the Caribbean from Africa went from
the present day Nigeria.
According to history of slave trade, between 1662 and 1807, it was said that the British shipped over 3 million Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Transatlantic Slave Trade, where they were taken to British-owned colonies in the Caribbean and used as slaves in plantations.
The biography of Harris revealed that she was born on October 20, 1964 in Oakland, among others.
