UNGA 81: US didn’t arrest Gaddafi, Castro, Ayatollah Khomeini – Tinubu’s aide

President Bola Tinubu’s Senior Special Assistant connected Foreign Affairs and Protocol, Ademola Oshodi, has dismissed claims that the United States could apprehension the Nigerian president, describing specified suggestions arsenic “pure nonsense” and politically motivated.

Oshodi stated this portion fielding questions connected Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.

Oshodi’s remark came aft the Presidency confirmed that Tinubu volition not beryllium physically contiguous astatine the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, successful New York, United States.

He argued that the United States would not apprehension a sitting caput of state, citing erstwhile Libyan person Muammar Gaddafi, erstwhile Cuban person Fidel Castro and Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini arsenic examples of overseas leaders who visited oregon had dealings with the United States contempt governmental differences.

“There is perfectly nary impediment. You know, for perfectly nary reason, it is axenic politics. This predetermination play is simply a silly play of radical saying things for electoral advantage. It is that simple,” Oshodi said.

“You know, successful immoderate situation, they would not. I rep...