The meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, showed approval for the Buhari-led administration, Nigeria’s top officials at the meeting said.
Buhari became the first sub-Saharan African leader to visit Trump at the White House for a bilateral talk that touched on security, economy, trade, investment and governance.
Gov. Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun said the meeting was “very fruitful, insightful and successful’’, adding that it was a deep-rooted meeting.
The governor said the Trump administration showed commitment and the general impression that it would support what the Nigerian government was doing.
Also, Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau said Buhari’s meeting with Trump “is not only fantastic but was very successful for the progress of our country’’.
Lalong said that looking at the totality of why the meeting took place, that Nigeria had achieved more than what she bargained for.
The Nigerian Ambassador to the U.S., Sylvanus Nsofor, could not hide his joy for the turnout of the event at the meeting.
“We have succeeded,’’ he said, adding that the meeting went smoothly with Trump and other bilateral engagements that Buhari and the Nigerian delegation attended.
Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, said the gains of the visit covered security, trade and governance issues.
In the area of governance, he said the return of large sums of money syphoned out and lodged in banks around the world, back to Nigeria was discussed.
The Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Abubakar Malami, pointed out three key remarks made by Trump that conveyed approval to Buhari-led administration.
Malami said the U.S. government was committed to clearing the bureaucratic bottlenecks on repatriation of over 500 million dollars back to Nigeria.
Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah, said both Buhari and Trump had had a relationship for a while since the U.S. President spoke after his inauguration to his Nigerian counterpart.
According to Enelamah, Trump acknowledged the importance of Nigeria and her economy in Africa.
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