One of the members of the Federal Executive Council of President Muhammad Buhari has spread some false information concerning Donald Trump, the 45th President-elect of the United States.
In the diplomatic gaffe and monumental blunder, Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Agriculture minister whilst addressing State House correspondents after the weekly FEC meeting said Trump’s victory was shocking and that US based Nigerians who were troubled should return home.
However from the rest of his statement as reported by The Cable and other media, it appears Ogbeh was misled by a fabricated statement purportedly issued by Trump which hit the internet earlier this year and caused upset among some Nigerians who believed it to be true.
One of the fabricated statements reads in part,
“Why can’t they stay in their own country? Why? I’ll tell you why. Because they are corrupt.
“Their Governments are so corrupt. They rob the people blind and bring it all here to spend and their people run away and come down here and take our jobs.
“We need to get the Africans out. Not the blacks, the Africans. Especially the Nigerians. They’re everywhere.
“We can’t have that! If I become president, we’ll send them all home. We’ll build a wall at the Atlantic Shore.
“Then maybe, we’ll re-colonize Africans because obviously they did not learn a damn thing from the British.
“I went for a rally in Alaska and met just one African in the entire state. Where was he from? Nigeria! He’s in Alaska taking our jobs. They’re in Houston taking our jobs.”
Ogbeh said earlier today, “I’m in a bit of shock, but we’re witnessing some very dramatic changes in the world, and I think some of these things began many years ago. The current economic theory ravaging the world is now reaching the poor and the ordinary people. It’s causing a lot of stress. Brexit happened, America has done this now. Many other countries are going to have near extremism ruling the minds of people.
“The rest of the world will have to then carefully watch and see the impact first. He made comments about Nigerians when he was campaigning that they had stolen money, they should go back to their country and live. He has a very low opinion of the blacks and Hispanics. We hope he’ll become a president now for all, including Nigerians and others, resident in the US. But if he doesn’t, it means we’ll have to re-tune and re-tool our foreign policy to begin to find a situation where we may have to be welcoming some of our people if they come under extreme pressure. We hope it doesn’t happen.”
