By Kingston Magare 5.7.2026
President Donald Trump administration is keen to keep a close watch of Nigeria’s presidential election next year.
According to US House of Reps member Riley Moore who is an observer of happenings in Nigeria the US government wants the elections to be credible. Incumbent President Bola Tinubu is facing opposing from Peter Obi and Abubakar Atiku who have accused the Independent National Electoral Commission of dancing to the tone of the ruling party All Progressives Congress.
“What I’d say is that we’re certainly going to be watching these results and how these elections unfold and how they’re executed. And that’s something that myself and the administration are going to be paying very close attention to,” Mr Moore said during an interview with NoireTV.
He stated that he and other lawmakers are working on a bill that will make security assistant to Nigeria harder to come by unless some conditions are met.
“We’re working on Chris (Smith)’s bill, which obviously I’m a co-sponsor of that bill. But I’d say, more importantly, what people need to pay attention to is the appropriations bill that we’re going to have on the floor today,” Mr Moore said.
“There’s a lot of language that I put on that bill that’s inside of it that relates to Nigeria and the persecution of Christians and restrictions on security assistance to the government of Nigeria, and steps that they have to take.
“That bill’s likely to become law. We’re about to, hopefully, pass that here today. And so there’s some pretty strong and aggressive language in that bill that’s going to be binding as it relates to our relationship to Nigeria moving forward.”
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