HON NKODO DANG EMERGES NEW PAP PRESIDENT



HON NKODO DANG EMERGES NEW PAP PRESIDENT
His Excellency, Hon. Nkodo Dang Roger of Cameroon has emerged the new President  of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) in a keenly contested election following the expiration of the tenure of Nigeria’s Hon. Bethel Amadi. A total of three candidates presented themselves for the election namely: Hon. Edwardo Joaquim Mulembwe  (Mozambique), Hon. Roger  Nkodo Dang (Cameroon) and Hon. Raboui Mongi (Tunisia).
Hon. Nkodo Dang secured the highest number of votes amongst the contestants and was therefore declared the winner of the election. He was immediately congratulated by the two other contestants who pledged to cooperate and work with him in the spirit of “One Africa, One Voice”.
In his acceptance speech, Hon. Nkodo Dang congratulated his fellow contestants for exhibiting the spirit of sportsmanship and expressed his appreciation to the PAP parliamentarians for the confidence reposed in him and pledged to carry everybody along. Hon. Nkodo Dang poured encomiums on the outgoing President of PAP, His Excellency Ambassador Bethel Amadi for the able way he piloted the affairs of the Parliament in the past three years particularly for ensuring the approval of a revised protocol by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government in June, 2014 which granted legislative powers in defined areas to PAP and concluded that Hon. Amadi has left a big shoe for him to fill. Hon. Nkodo Dang expressed optimism that with Hon. Bethel Amadi’s new status as PAP Ambassador, ratification, adoption and implementation of the newly approved revised PAP Protocol would be achieved in no distant time.
Hon.Nkodo Dang was first elected into the National Assembly of Cameroon in 2002 and re-elected in 2013. He wass elected First Vice President in 2012 and re-elected in2014 and holds a bachelors degree in Law and a Masters degree in International Relations.

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