3rd November 2025
The Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, has dismissed a report claiming that the President is scheduled to visit the United States on Tuesday for a meeting with US Vice President J.D. Vance.
Ajayi, in a post via his official X handle on Monday, described the report as false and misleading, saying it had fuelled unnecessary speculation and “uninformed commentaries.”
Ajayi added that if Tinubu were to visit the White House, he would be meeting with President Donald Trump, not the Vice President.
He wrote, “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.”
The clarification came after reports claimed that Tinubu was set to travel to Washington for “top-level diplomatic engagements” amid heightened global attention on the alleged persecution of Christians in Nigeria and a recent statement by Trump threatening possible military action.
Trump, in a post on his Truth account on Saturday, warned that the United States might “go in guns blazing” if the Nigerian government failed to stop the alleged killing of Christians.
“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the USA 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 who are committing these horrible atrocities.
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