Presidency attacks Atiku’s $1.2m US lobbying deal
“The self-bestowed appellation of ‘Senior Government Advisor’ is a linguistic sleight of hand,” Dare said, adding that Okeke-Von Batten’s comments represented his personal or commercial position and not that of the US government or the President.
According to him, the arrangement was intended to counter Nigerian government narratives and use historical US legal records as political leverage in Nigeria.
He said the ongoing US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) proceedings involving historical records had been active since 2023 and were unrelated to President Bola Tinubu’s current foreign engagements.
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