A stalwart of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), , has celebrated the historic election of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, as the new Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, at the 27th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM 2024) in Apia, Samoa.
A post shared on his X page on Saturday, October 26, 2024 stated, "This Ga woman, who was a secretary in the 1990s, worked her way relentlessly up to become an MP of the then most populous constituency in Ghana, deputy minister, foreign minister, and even then remarkably made time to study to become a lawyer.
Today she has, by a landslide, been elected to lead the 56-nation Commonwealth as Secretary-General. "The first ever African woman to do so.
The second woman to do so (Patricia Scotland as first) and the second ever African to head the body (Emeka Anyaoku was first in 1990).