Sir: The story of how the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (GMB) responded to a point blank question put to him by the USA President, Donald Trump, is the motivation for this piece. Where was Trump when the former president Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan used bribery and influence to pocket CAN leadership and the latter was pouring invectives on Boko Haram which started to retaliate by bombing churches? I told Boko Haram to spare innocent people worshipping in churches and church-bombing stopped. Where was Trump when Boko Haram abducted about 300 Chibok secondary school girls in 2014 and Jonathan ignored my advice that he should dialogue for release of the girls and peace of Nigeria, while the then USA president Barrack Obama and some other world powers supported Jonathan’s obduracy? After selling warplanes to GMB for the carnage and economic destruction of Nigeria, Trump himself is concerned about killing Christians and not other Nigerians.

Source: The Guardian September 16, 2020 03:22 UTC