The United State Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Leonard, has assured Nigeria that a repeat of what happened in Afghanistan won’t happen in the West Africa country.
Leonard gave the assurance on Monday during a meeting with journalists in Abuja.
The ambassador explained that Nigeria and Afghanistan’s situations are not the same.
Several quarters in the country had warned the President Muhammadu Buhari against a repeat of what happened in Afghanistan, where the Taliban took over the country.
They expressed fear that the situation in Afghanistan may serve as a morale booster for Boko Haram in Nigeria to take over the country.
Leonard noted that Nigeria has had a strong bilateral relationship with the US, saying that the situations are not the same.
But in dismissing the fear that the US partnership with Nigeria might end up like that of Afghanistan, she added, “I hear people making the analogy with Afghanistan a lot, it does not match up.
“When you listen to what President Biden said on how troops went to Afghanistan in the first place, it was because they were in a horrible tragedy, over 3,000 Americans were killed.
“That is a different construct. The sovereign nations who have had strong bilateral relations. I don’t actually think the two match up.”