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Tinubu and Biafra lobbyists join war for Trump’s ear over Christian genocide claims

By paying $9 million to US lobbyists through a pop-up law firm, the Abuja government has outbid Christian secessionists

Scrambling in the wake of US President Donald J Trump’s threat to ‘go into Nigeria guns ablazing’ on 1 November to end what he called a ‘Christian genocide’, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government has enthusiastically joined in the privatisation of foreign policy by hiring a slew of lobbyists in Washington DC, all claiming to have the ear of the President and his advisors.

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