(a) Has she been informed of Nigeria’s reason(s) for abstaining from the vote on Palestinian statehood at the United Nations (UN) Security Council session on 31 December 2014, (b) do African countries take any steps to avoid the embarrassment of voting against each other in multilateral bodies and (c) what is the role of the African Union in fulfilling its core original principle of Pan-Africanism with regard to our participation in the UN?