Tinubu: Effort to secure Trump’s support for re-election has failed – US firm
United States-based policy advisory and lobbying firm, Von Batten-Montague-York, has claimed that efforts by the Nigerian Presidency to secure the support of US President Donald Trump for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election have failed. Von Batten-Montague-York stated this in a post on its verified X handle on Tuesday. The firm also accused Tinubu’s special advisers of […] Tinubu: Effort to…
US lobbying firm Von Batten-Montague-York has disclosed that attempts by the Nigerian Presidency to gain support from US President Donald Trump for Bola Tinubu's re-election bid have been unsuccessful. In a statement on its verified X account, the firm expressed disappointment at the Nigerian President's special advisers, particularly over their dissatisfaction with the firm's role in the $9 million lobbying campaign aimed at winning over President Trump.
The firm also clarified that the planned meeting between Tinubu and Trump, scheduled on the sidelines of the United Nations gathering, will no longer take place. "We have learned that Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, his Special Adviser, Sunday Dare and their supporters are deeply unhappy with us, particularly with our founder, Dr. Von Batten.
We understand their frustration, and we would like to play the world's smallest violin for their sorrows," the firm stated. The firm further accused Tinubu's camp of spreading falsehoods about their work and Dr. Von Batten following the failure. "If your response to failure is to invent false stories about our work and Dr. Von Batten, then you have learned nothing from that failure," the statement read.
The firm emphasized that it is merely a lobbying entity and urged the Nigerian Federal Government to demonstrate dignity in defeat.
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