The Presidency has dismissed as false a report by Sahara Reporters claiming that President Bola Tinubu is scheduled to travel to the United States on Tuesday to meet with U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance.
In a statement on Monday, Tope Ajayi, Senior Special Assistant to President Tinubu on Media and Public Affairs, described the report as “fake news,” noting that it had already generated several “uninformed commentaries.”
Ajayi clarified that if President Tinubu were to visit the White House, it would not be to meet with a Vice President.
“There’s a Sahara Reporters story that President Tinubu is going to the U.S. on Tuesday to see U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance. That story is not true. I can see that the fake news by Sahara has become the basis for some uninformed commentaries since yesterday. If President Tinubu is going to the White House, he won’t be going to see a Vice President,” Ajayi stated.
The Presidency urged the public to disregard the report and rely solely on verified sources for information about the President’s engagements and travels.
Meanwhile, on Sunday, former U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he had instructed the U.S. Department of Defense to prepare for “possible action” against Nigeria, alleging that the Nigerian government is allowing the killing of Christians.
In the post, Trump wrote: “If the Nigerian government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic terrorists.”
The post followed his announcement that he would designate Nigeria a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) for religious-freedom violations — a list of nations where the U.S. claims religious freedoms are under severe threat. Nigeria’s government has strongly rejected that characterisation, stating that it “does not reflect our national reality,” and emphasizing that violence in the country affects both Muslims and Christians, driven largely by ethnic, regional, and land-use conflicts.
