The administration of President Bola Tinubu has hired an American law firm on a contract of $750,000 monthly for six months ($4.5million) to convince US President, Donald Trump, against that Christian genocide does not exist in Nigeria.
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The motive is also to assure the US Government of its commitment to eradicating jihadi agenda in the country.
According to a report by Africa Confidential, the move by the Federal Government comes after Christian secessionists, largely associated with the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), had spent $60,000 to push its narrative of oppression and marginalization.
“By paying $9 million to US lobbyists through a pop-up law firm, the Abuja government has outbid Christian secessionists,” it wrote.
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“Scrambling in the wake of US President Donald J Trump’s threat to ‘go into Nigeria guns ablazing’ on 1 November to end what he called a ‘Christian genocide’, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government has enthusiastically joined in the privatisation of foreign policy by hiring a slew of lobbyists in Washington DC, all claiming to have the ear of the President and his advisors,” the newspaper wrote on Tuesday.
