Temitope Ajayi, President Bola Tinubu’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, has dismissed reports claiming the president will travel to the United States on Tuesday to meet with U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Ajayi described the report as “false and misleading,” accusing Sahara Reporters of fueling “uninformed commentaries.” He clarified that if Tinubu were to visit the White House, it would be to meet President Donald Trump, not the 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,” Ajayi wrote. “If President Tinubu is going to the White House, he won’t be going to see a Vice President.”
The clarification came amid heightened diplomatic tension following Donald Trump’s warning that the U.S. could take military action against Nigeria over alleged Christian persecution.
In a post on his Truth Social account, Trump said the U.S. “may very well go into that now disgraced country, guns-a-blazing, to completely wipe out the Islamic terrorists.”
