Ex-vice president Atiku Abubakar has blamed President Muhammadu Buhari’s government for the travel ban on the country by the United States.
The US placed immigration restrictions on Nigeria, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Sudan and Tanzania on Friday. The restriction will come into effect on February 22 and are less sweeping, unlike the travel ban President Donald Trump unveiled in January 2017, which targeted Muslim countries.
Atiku insisted that Nigeria would not have been banned if the Buhari government had taken information sharing with the United States very serious.
“The current Nigerian administration may have its deficiencies and deep faults, but the Nigeria people ought not to be punished for their inefficiencies,” Atiku said in a statement on Saturday.
