Nigeria-US Relations : Tinubu, Trump Tête-à-Tête In The Pipe

Nigerian President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu is expected to meet with the United States President, Donald Trump in the days ahead. The information made public by one of the Nigeria’s communications advisors, was also confirmed on Sunday by a White House communications officer. The proposed meeting, came less than seventy-two hours after the US leader threatened to launch a military intervention in Nigeria, if Abuja authorities don’t stop what the US president claims are “murders of Christians” by “Islamist terrorists.” “If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” Trump posted on social media. 
Abuja officials have rejected the accusations, as well as any exclusively religious interpretation of the ongoing violence in the country. In a message posted on social media, President Bola Tinubu denied that Christians were being targeted more than other communities. In his X account on Saturday, Bola Tinubu said the “Characterisation of Nigeria as religiously intolerant country does not reflect our national reality.” On Sunday, Daniel Bwala, communications adviser to Nigerian President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, revealed on X that, “President Trump has greatly helped Nigeria by authorizing arms sales to that country, and President Tinubu ...