The Presidency has frowned at the latest opinion piece published by Foreign Affairs magazine on Nigeria, describing it as distorted and unfair.
In a statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, the Presidency also lashed out at former American Ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, for persistently wishing Nigeria’s failure.
In the response statement, released on Thursday, June 3, 2021 in Abuja, quoting a letter addressed to the Publisher of Foreign Affairs magazine, the Presidency frowned at the way and manner facts were being bent to support distorted opinions.
“The latest article on Nigeria in Foreign Affairs titled ‘The Giant of Africa is failing’ is unfair both to a magazine with such an esteemed pedigree and to its readers.
The Foreign Affairs magazine had published that “Nigeria is in big trouble. If a state’s first obligation to those it governs is to provide for their security and maintain a monopoly on the use of violence, then Nigeria has failed, even if some other aspects of the state still function. Criminals, separatists, and Islamist insurgents increasingly threaten the government’s grip on power, as do rampant corruption, economic malaise, and rising poverty. ”
