Trump Reportedly Calls President Buhari ‘Lifeless’ As Nigerians Reacts

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Donald Trump, the United States President, on Monday stirred a serious controversy online after he referred to President Muhammadu Buhari as ‘Lifeless’

Trump made the statement shortly after a meeting between the two leaders on April 30, Financial Times reported on Monday.

President Buhari, the first sub-Saharan Africa president to meet Trump since he was sworn in January 2017 as the 45th American president, was in the US for bilateral talks on Trump’s invitation.

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The US President, will welcome Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta to the White House on Monday for what will be only the second one-on-one meeting with the US president has held with an African leader since he took office last year.

The Financial Times reports that, the first meeting, with Nigeria’s ailing 75-year-old Muhammadu Buhari in April, ended with the US president telling his aides he never wanted to meet someone so lifeless again, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Advocates of closer US-Africa ties hope his encounter with the younger, more urbane Mr. Kenyatta, 56, will breathe fresh life into a relationship with a region that Washington is seen to have neglected as other countries, notably China, develop ever-closer trade and investment ties with the continent.

Looking at the President of France , Emmanuel Macron,  moves , France is also trying to reset its relationship with its former colonies in Africa and deepen commercial ties with bigger economies in the Anglosphere, such as Nigeria and South Africa.

“Trump likes chemistry,” said a person in touch both with senior US administration officials and the Kenya delegation preparing for Monday’s meeting. “Africa has never been high on his radar but if the big guy likes you he’ll find a way to make things work.”

However, back home, Trump's statement has stirred divergent opinions online as some agreed with Trump calling for Buhari not to seek re-election in 2019.

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The Daily Post went online and put together these comments as reported:

@LordSheriff “Another low for Nigeria, now that even the US has seen how unfit Buhari is to lead Nigeria. The resolve to send him back to Daura has never been strengthened.”

@Abangmercy “Trump’s alleged remark is something to worry about, we might not like our President’s Policies but jubilating that a man that is almost same age as him even if he was younger but to refer to the Nigerian President as “Lifeless” is rather unfortunate – Buhari represents us all.”

@7Biafra “Truth is painful to liars, Buhari is lifeless represent the Fulani and the Hausa with the rest of JIHADIST group in Nigeria, Buhari that have kill thousands of my people do not represent me and my whole people of Biafra, Buhari is lifeless as TRUMP state it if that is true.”

@Koopreh “Describing Buhari as “Lifeless” is perhaps the most depressing thing you’ll read today as a Nigerian. But is Donald Trump right about the state of the man? Many Nigerians agree with the US president! It takes a lifeless leader to run Nigeria aground the way Buhari has.”

@SweetMomdee “I think I will be more surprised if Trump praised Buhari.”

@Mistereldeexl “I agree with Trump on this one. Nigerians really messed up in 2015 but the sad thing is some of us want to repeat the same mistake in 2019. We deserve better.”

@MrStanleyNwabia “If Trump feels this way about Buhari, wait till he meets Buhari supporters (People that are mad)

@JohnGrace “Buhari does not deserve to be President of Nigeria.Trump said he never wants to meet someone lifeless again. Buhari must go 2019, enough of this embarrassment.

@ Tutsy22 “Even 72 -year- old Trump says Buhari is useless.”

@OkoroNwadi “Did Trump say that? But the truth must be told, PMB should not be who Nigeria should front as their President.”

@Saucekode “First it was ‘Shithole’ now it is ‘Someone so lifeless’ Nigeria we need a better upgrade.”


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