Abuja, Oct 22, 2011 (SPS) - The President of the Ruling People’s Democratic Party in Nigeria (PDP), Mr. Abubakar Kao Baraje, has reaffirmed the support of its country to the struggle of the Saharawis for freedom and independence, which stems from “its principled traditions to support the just causes and right of peoples to self-determination,” during his hosting on Wednesday to the Saharawi Ambassador in Abuja, Mr. Oubi Bachraya.
In a statement of the SADR Embassy in Nigeria, the Nigerian official expressed the intention of Nigeria’s PDP “to develop and deepen the bilateral relations with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguiet Al Hamra and Wade ed Dahab (Polisario Front) in order to serve the interests of the two brotherly countries and peoples.”
From his part, the Saharawi ambassador expressed “the gratitude of the Saharawi people to the principled and firm position of Nigeria in supporting the Saharawis struggle, which has been expressed during the recent deliberations of the UN Fourth Committee on Decolonization in New York and the international conference on the Saharawi woman’s struggle held last month in Abuja.”
He noted that the recent Intifada in occupied Dakhla and its subsequent heinous repression perpetrated by Morocco against the Saharawi civilians in the rest of the Saharawi occupied cities “reaffirms the absolute need to give the MINURSO the powers of monitor and protect human rights in Western Sahara.”
PDP has ruled Nigeria since 1999. It holds 150 seats in the parliament out of 360 and 71 seats in the Senate out of 109. In addition it governs in 23 provinces out of 37, according to the results of the April 2011 elections. (SPS)
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