President
Muhammadu Buhari has joined world leaders
in congratulating German Chancellor Angela Merkel on her victory at the
polls. President Buhari felicitated
with the German Chancellor’s party for
producing leadership for the country for over 12 years, and winning another
opportunity to sustain the legacy of good work.
According to
Femi Adesina, President Buhari recalled
his interactions with Chancellor Merkel over the years, especially at the G8
meeting in 2015 and during his visit to Germany in 2016. President Buhari
came “away with a strong impression of
her commitment to building stronger ties across the world”, Adesina said.
Merkel limped to a fourth term on Sunday
and must now cobble together an unwieldy coalition with two other parties — the
business friendly Free Democrats (FDP) and environmentalist Greens — that have
diametrically opposed views on many of the big issues. The result suggested
that pollsters may have underestimated the lingering impact of the refugee
crisis in the election and the outsized influence it would have in the east,
where voters continue to behave very differently than their brethren in the
west 28 years after the fall of the Wall.
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