The federal government has
queried the Nigerian ambassador for reportedly attending the inauguration of
the US embassy in Jerusalem.
A presidency official confirmed
this to state house correspondents on Tuesday.
The decision of US President
Donald Trump to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel had drawn
criticism from Europe and Washington’s main Arab allies.
The relocation of the American
embassy to Jerusalem had also generated condemnation from from Palestine and
led to the deaths of at least 41 persons.
The presidency official, who
spoke to journalists on the condition of anonymity, said Geoffrey Onyeama,
minister of foreign affairs, has queried the ambassador, whom he thought
attended the event but did not.
Al Jazeera had reported that
Nigeria was among the countries that were represented at the inauguration, a
claim the presidency has denied.
“Based on that report, the
minister queried the ambassador to explain why he attended the event,” the
official said.
“The ambassador has since replied
that he was not at the event. It was on the strength of the ambassador’s
response that the federal government wrote to Al Jazeera to retract its story.”
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