President Buhari Congratulates Wellington Jighere as he Emerged World Scrabble Champion

Wellington Jighere

According to a tweet by Garba Shehu, official spokesperson to the President of Nigeria, Buhari has called Wellington Jighere to congratulate him for making Nigeria proud earlier today when he became the first African to ever become the World Scrabble Champion. View Tweet after cut

About 450 Scrabble players came from around the world to compete in the tournament that saw 36-year-old Nigerian man, Wellington Jighere, emerge the winner in Perth, Australia. Nigeria also emerged as the best team of the championship as five of its six representatives finished in top 50
players of the tournament with Ayorinde Saidu and Emmanuel Umujose placing 16th and 17th, respectively.

With this victory Nigeria will gain more slots in terms of representations at subsequent world tournaments.

Mr. Wellington also placed 3rd at the World Scrabble Championship back in 2007.