{"id":77956,"date":"2025-11-03T12:44:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77956"},"modified":"2025-11-03T12:44:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:44:22","slug":"presidency-denies-report-on-tinubus-planned-us-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/03\/presidency-denies-report-on-tinubus-planned-us-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidency Denies Report on Tinubu\u2019s Planned US Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Presidency has dismissed reports claiming that President Bola Tinubu is set to visit the United States on Tuesday to meet with US Vice President J.D. Vance.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, the President\u2019s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, described the report by Sahara Reporters as \u201cfalse and misleading.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He clarified that if Tinubu were to visit Washington, he would meet with President Donald Trump, not the Vice President.<\/p>\n<p>Ajayi\u2019s clarification followed speculations linking the alleged visit to Trump\u2019s recent threat of possible US military action in Nigeria over alleged Christian persecution.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu has since reaffirmed Nigeria\u2019s commitment to democracy, religious freedom, and peaceful coexistence, saying his administration maintains open engagement with religious leaders across faiths to promote unity and security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; The Presidency has dismissed reports claiming that President Bola Tinubu is set to visit the United States on Tuesday to meet with US Vice President J.D. Vance. In a post on X, the President\u2019s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, described the report by Sahara Reporters as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77959,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77956\/revisions\/77959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}