Alleged Genocide: Adamu Garba Slams FG’s Response as ‘Amateurish’
Former All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba, has criticised the Federal Government’s handling of United States President Donald Trump’s claim of Christian genocide in Nigeria and his threat of possible military action, describing the response as “amateurish.”
Garba made the remarks on Wednesday during Trust TV’s Daily Politics, expressing concern over what he described as a lack of coordinated communication on an issue that requires careful diplomatic management.
“Actually, to me, it’s very amateurish because it looks like there is a media diplomacy,” he said.
“You see several media aides issuing different frontline, center kind of statements. You can’t even coherently articulate the real position of this government regarding this issue.”
He argued that instead of a unified foreign-policy response, various government spokespersons have been issuing conflicting statements, projecting confusion to the international community.
“You see this one talking this way, you see that one talking this way. You see less of even the foreign ministry acting. So what is the problem?” he asked.
Garba stressed that matters involving international relations should be handled primarily by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and relevant diplomatic institutions, not political aides.
He said, “This is a frontline matter, something outside the border. So why is it that you have only aides jumping around with their own instinct, issuing statements?”
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