Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has congratulated the new President of Namibia, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah.

Obasanjo said the election indicated that the good people of the country had spoken. His congratulatory letter was made known in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi in Abeokuta, Ogun State on Wednesday.

Obasanjo was particularly happy, that the people of the country reposed their trust and confidence in a woman who had become the first female President of Namibia.

Obasanjo, who is in Burundi said Nandi-Ndaitwah’s victory was received with “great delight and deep sense of pleasure.”

Namibia’s ruling SWAPO party was declared winner of last week’s elections, ushering in the southern African country’s first woman president after a disputed vote the main opposition has already said it does not recognise.

Vice-President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah took just over 57 per cent of ballots followed by the candidate for the main opposition Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) with 25.5 per cent, the election authority announced.