The Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, has dismissed reports that the President is set to visit the United States on Tuesday for a meeting with US Vice President J.D. Vance.
In a post on his official X handle on Monday, Ajayi described the report as false and misleading, saying it had led to unnecessary speculation and “uninformed commentaries.”
He wrote, “There’s a Sahara Reporters story that President Tinubu is going to the U.S. on Tuesday to see U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance. That story is not true. I can see that the fake news by Sahara has become the basis for some uninformed commentaries since yesterday. If President Tinubu is going to the White House, he won’t be going to see a Vice President.”
Ajayi clarified that if President Tinubu were to visit the White House, he would be meeting with President Donald Trump, not the Vice President.
The statement follows reports suggesting Tinubu would travel to Washington for “top-level diplomatic engagements” amid rising global attention on religious tensions in Nigeria and recent comments by President Trump.
