African Union Commission looking for better candidates for the chairperson position
The African Union commission is considering Tanzania’s former President Jakaya Kikwete and the current Algerian Foreign Minister Ramntane Lamamra to succeed Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma after considering the three candidates that have put their names forward ‘below par’ reports eNCA.
With elections due next month the officials of the pan-African organization are in search of a better person to occupy the top job. This move could delay the elections to the next AU summit in January next year in Addis Ababa, which would mean Dlamini-Zuma would have to extend her stay or delegate her duties to the deputy Erastus Mwencha from Kenya.
Dlamini-Zuma had declined to run for a second term following the end of her tenure next month at the AU summit in Kigali, Rwanda.
The three candidates who have put their names forward are Botswana’s foreign affairs minister, Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, 65, who is the candidate of the Southern African Development Community (SADC); former Ugandan deputy president Specioza Naigaga Wandira Kazibwe, 60, for the east African region; and Equatorial Guinea’s foreign affairs minister, Agapito Mba Mokuy, 51, for the central African region.
