Acting President Yemi Osinbajo says Nigeria and the United States have to deepen their long-standing relationship based on mutual trust.
He said this on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja while receiving the Commander of the US-Africa Command, General Thomas Waldhauser and the American Ambassador in Nigeria, Honorable W. Stuart Symington.
Osinbajo said Nigeria would be very open and willing to build a relationship based on trust “so that we would benefit from it and of course our relationship as nations would benefit tremendously from it.”
The acting president reiterated the Federal Government’s determination to end insurgency as quickly as possible.
Referring to attacks by remnants and splinter groups from the terrorists, Osinbajo said they, nonetheless,
could no longer launch military attacks.
He said Nigeria would welcome from the United States, more military cooperation and assistance in dealing with the humanitarian situation in the northeast.
Waldhauser expressed the US government’s readiness to accelerate its contributions, noting that his visit was aimed at developing further “the friendship and trust that we have in common.”
