The Special Adviser on Policy Communication to President Bola Tinubu, Daniel Bwala, has claimed it would be diplomatically unacceptable for the United States to carry out any military operation in Nigeria without consent.
Bwala stated this in an interview with BBC World Service on Monday.
He insisted that Nigeria is a sovereign nation and that any form of foreign intervention in its internal security issues must be collaborative and respectful of its territorial integrity.
Bwala’s comments come after US President Donald Trump designated Nigeria a “country of particular concern” over the alleged persecution of Christians.
Trump also threatened to deploy America’s “Department of War” against terrorist groups he claimed were targeting Christians in Nigeria.
“If it’s a joint operation with Nigeria, that’s acceptable,” Bwala said.
“But diplomatically, it is wrong to invade a sovereign nation without collaboration—especially one that remains a strategic partner in the fight against insecurity.
“Unilateral intervention only happens when there is evidence that a government is complicit in a crisis. That is certainly not the case in Nigeria,” he said.
