The Federal Government has said President Bola Tinubu will visit the United States and meet with President Donald Trump “once the situation is right for him,” following heightened diplomatic tension between both countries.
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, stated this on Friday during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
Idris said, “We believe that he will go once the situation is right for him to go. But he has been to America. I was with him at the UN when he took office.”
Relations between Abuja and Washington deteriorated sharply after Trump redesignated Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), citing what he called “mass slaughter of Christians”.
The CPC designation, reinstated on October 31, triggered a wave of reactions from Nigerian officials and religious groups.
Days after the redesignation, Trump issued a fiery warning, accusing the Nigerian Government of failing to contain attacks on Christian communities.
In a controversial post on his Truth Social platform, the US President threatened to halt aid and possibly launch military operations in Nigeria.
“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 wrote.
He added, “I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet.”
