Politics
Tinubu congratulates Claudia Sheinbaum on election as Mexico’s first female President
President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday extended his congratulations to Her Excellency, Ms. Claudia Sheinbaum, on her historic election as the first female President of the United Mexican States (Mexico).
The President, in a statement, observed that Ms. Sheinbaum won the Mexican presidential election by a landslide, becoming the first female President in the country since its independence in 1821.
President Tinubu stated that the election of President-elect Sheinbaum accented the voices of women in government, shatters political glass ceiling, and sends a reverberating message across the world that women must not only be participants but principal architects in shaping and implementing decisions affecting the lives of many.
On behalf of the government and people of Nigeria, the President congratulated the people of Mexico and called for the strengthening of bilateral ties between both nations across areas of mutual interest.
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