President-elect Bola Tinubu and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke on the phone on Tuesday.
In a statement released in Washington, DC, U.S. Department of State spokesperson Matthew Miller stated that throughout the conversation, Blinken stressed his continuous commitment to furthering the US-Nigeria partnership with the new Tinubu administration.
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met with Bola Tinubu, the president-elect of Nigeria, this morning to stress his continued commitment to furthering the partnership between the United States and Nigeria under the next administration.
According to Miller, Blinken said that the US-Nigeria cooperation is based on common interests and solid people-to-people ties and that these ties should only get stronger under Tinubu’s leadership.
According to Miller, the significance of inclusive leadership that reflects all Nigerians, ongoing comprehensive security cooperation, and measures to foster economic growth were topics of conversation between Secretary Blinken and President-elect Tinubu.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP presidential)’s candidate, however, expressed surprise at Blinken’s call to Tinubu.
“I can’t believe Secretary Antony Blinken phoned Tinubu; this is in direct opposition to the U.S.’s position on Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election, which the U.S. Given has openly expressed that America, the centre of democracy, is well-informed about the fraudulent election of February 25, this is incomprehensible. Given the widely acknowledged fake election in Nigeria, credibility might demoralise those who have staked their lives on democracy and the integrity of the voting process.
