General News of Saturday, 28 January 2023Source: www.ghanaweb.comFormer President John Dramani Mahama has pledged his support for Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, should she contest for the position of the next Secretary-General of the Commonwealth. According to him, he believes Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has what it takes to become the Commonwealth Secretary-General. “I’m hearing it for the first time that our Foreign Affairs Minister is interested in the position of the Commonwealth Secretary-General. I have worked closely with Baroness Patricia Scotland, she’s chosen me to lead several election observation missions in Kenya, Sierra Leone, and other places”. The Commonwealth Secretary-General is the head of the Commonwealth Secretariat, the central body which has served the Commonwealth of Nations since its establishment in 1965, and responsible for representing the Commonwealth publicly.
