‘God not ready for me to leave Jamaica yet’: Johnson Smith concedes defeat as Scotland retains Commonwealth secretary-general post
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBaroness Patricia Scotland today (June 24) officially staved off the challenge from Kamina Johnson Smith to remain Secretary-General of the Commonwealth. According to reports emerging out of Kigali, Rwanda, where the 2022 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is being staged, Scotland held a narrow three-vote lead to retain her position ahead of challengers Johnson Smith from Jamaica and Tuvaluan Iakoba Italeli. Results and votes are as follows: Candidate Votes Patricia Scotland 27 Kamina Johnson Smith 24 Iakoba Italeli 4 Johnson Smith, conceding defeat, argued on Twitter that perhaps ‘God wasn’t yet ready’ for her to leave Jamaica. The foreign…