The United States government has thrown its support to South Korea's Yoo Myung-hee rather than Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as a preferred candidate to lead the World Trade Organisation. This is despite overwhelming support from other member countries in the global body.
Correspondent Phil Ihaza reports from Nigeria's capital Abuja.
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