Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President says Nigeria enjoyed a good working relationship with the administration of US President, Donald Trump.
The president’s spokesperson, however, noted that the Buhari regime looked forward to a better relationship with the incoming administration of Joe Biden.
Shehu said, “Nigeria and the United States have enjoyed a very good relationship and it was even more so under President Trump who just lost the election. If you recall very well, this country had procured weapons to fight terrorism and internal security from the United States and various world capitals. For some reasons before President Buhari came to office, the United States government and several other nations of the world stopped the sale of weapons to Nigeria. To the credit of Mr Trump, he agreed. In fact, he called President Buhari at a short notice and said, Mr Buhari, you want to buy a dozen Super Tucano (these are aircraft most suitable for fighting terrorism like the one we face in the North-East). I give you two months, this is how much you will pay, we will give you. It’s a big relief for us. We will soon start receiving some of the aircraft hopefully next year. So, we have had a good relationship with Mr Trump but our hope is that this relationship will even be better with President Biden.”