Admin l Tuesday, March 13, 2018
WASHINGTON, United States – President Donald Trump has sacked Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson. Trump sacked Tillerson just a day after visiting Nigeria. It is not clear why the president sacked the secretary of state. Tillerson left Nigeria on Monday after rounding up his trip to Africa. Tillerson was received in Nigeria by President Muhammadu Buhari. While receiving him on Monday, President Buhari told him that Nigeria was working in concert with international organizations and negotiators, to ensure that the girls were released unharmed by their captors.
It is not clear why he was sacked, but sources are attributing to his recent utterances on North Korea and Russia.
“We are trying to be careful. It is better to get our daughters back alive,” the President said.He thanked America for assistance rendered in the fight against insurgency, noting that Nigerian forces are good, “but need assistance in the areas of training and equipment.”
President Buhari promised that his administration would continue to do its best to secure the country, adding that he would be in Yobe State, from where Dapchi schoolgirls were abducted, later this week “as part of my condolence and sympathy visits to areas where we have had unfortunate events.”
The President pledged free and fair polls in 2019, recalling that the then American Secretary of State, John Kerry, had visited before the 2015 polls, “and he told the party in government then, and those of us in opposition, to behave ourselves, and we did.”
The visiting Secretary of State commended President Buhari on his strides in the anti-corruption war, to which the Nigerian leader responded that moneys recovered are being invested on development of infrastructure.
Mr Tillerson said Nigeria was a very important country to the U.S, stressing: “You have our support in your challenges. We will also support opportunities to expand the economy, commercial investments, and peaceful polls in 2019.”
