Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu
Former Abia State governor and renowned business mogul, Dr. Orji Kalu, has reacted over alleged comment credited to President Donald Trump of the United States of America (USA), for describing (Muhammadu Buhari) as lifeless president.
Kalu who commended President Buhari for keeping mum, described Trump’s utterance as needless, and also urged the US president to sustain the age-long relationship between Nigeria and the US.
ABACITYBLOG recalled that President Trump was quoted in Financial Times, a US newspaper, to have told one of his aides, that Buhari is a lifeless president.
Faulting Trump’s claim, Kalu urged world leaders to maintain decorum in diplomatic relations; for the sake of building a fair society.
DailySun reports that Kalu said these, yesterday, when he hosted a cross-section of graduate African students of the National War College in Washington D.C.
While acknowledging the robust bilateral relations between Nigerian and the US in the areas of trade, security, politics and other interventions, he recalled that the same US President had, in the past, extolled president Buhari’s virtues.
Kalu, who called on Nigerians at home and abroad to sustain their support for the president Buhari-led government, urged politicians not to put the country on precipice with unsubstantiated claims, adding that the current administration will not lose focus in its efforts to rebuild the nation.
“The recent statement credited to president Donald Trump of the United States of America, describing Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari as a lifeless president, should be disregarded.
“The false claim, as reported in Financial Times, cannot be validated otherwise, president Trump would have come out formally and openly to make such an acerbic statement.
“The same US president had, in recent times, applauded president Muhammadu Buhari. It is no longer news that many world leaders have been visiting president Buhari in Nigeria. It is testament to the acceptability of president Buhari’s laudable programmes and policies.
“President Buhari has also been reciprocating the diplomatic gestures by visiting leaders across the globe. “We should not make issues out of a statement that is not official. Nigeria and the US have come a long way in bilateral co-operation. Both countries have been supportive of each other,” he said.
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