According to AP News, Congress is expected to be formally notified within weeks, to set in a motion a deal with Nigeria, that the Obama administration did not sign off on.
The West African nation is to purchase up to 12 Embraer A-29 Super Tucano aircraft with sophisticated targeting gear for nearly $600 million.
Officials were not authorised to discuss the terms of the sale publicly and requested anonymity to speak.
Nigeria has been trying to buy the aircraft since 2015.
In Trump’s first phone call with Buhari in February this year, he “assured the Nigerian president of US readiness to cut a new deal in helping Nigeria in terms of military weapons to combat terrorism.”
“President Trump expressed support for the sale of aircraft from the United States to support Nigeria’s fight against Boko Haram,” a White House statement said on February 15, providing a summary of the call between the two leaders. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Where's Soyinka and his ilk? I'm to believe this knocks him edgeways!
ReplyDeleteThat's a welcome development. Anybody wish's Nigeria bad luck or evil, his/her evil wishes will consume him and any evil against Nigeria will never see the day light for ever.
ReplyDeletePresident Donald Trump – please, please do not sell those military fighter planes to Buhari/Nigeria –unless you are approving the continued killings of Biafran agitators and extermination of Christians, massacre of Shiite Muslims, genocide of Christians in Southern Kaduna, and the killings and criminal invasion of farmlands by Fulani herdsmen, which is an organization that Buhari is a patron. Please President Trump do not sell weapons to Buhari. Buhari is a human right abuser and former Boko haram spokesperson. He’s not fighting Boko haram but to carry out Hausa-Fulani hegemony in Nigeria. Please do not. Buhari is worse than Assad of Syria.
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