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Former foreign affairs minister Bolaji Akinyemi has warned President Bola Tinubu to avoid getting under the skin of the new U.S. President Donald Trump and to avoid being bullied by the latter.
He advised President Bola Tinubu to avoid confrontation with Mr Trump “even if the new U.S. president does things that infringe on the interests of Nigeria.”
“If I were President Tinubu, I would try to steer clear of antagonising him because there is nothing a bully likes better than taking on people who are not strong enough to resist him.
“You know there is that African proverb that if you are not strong enough to take on a bully and you take him on, you are just even going to suffer more for it,” Mr Akinyemi stated.
According to Mr Akinyemi, Nigeria is not a focus of Mr Trump’s administration. He urged Africa not to expect anything spectacular from Mr Trump’s presidency.
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