The Federal Government has said President Bola Tinubu would visit the White House when the “situation is right,” dismissing insinuations that president Tinubu is avoiding Washington amid recent diplomatic tensions triggered by United States President Donald Trump’s designation of Nigeria as a “Country of Particular Concern” and his Christian genocide claim in Nigeria

Speaking during an interview on Channels Television, on Friday, November 21, the Minister of Information Mohammed Idris, said there was no breakdown in Nigeria–US relations, insisting that both countries were actively engaging on the issues raised by the Trump administration.

Addressing questions on why President Tinubu had yet to visit the White House, he said the president was not avoiding the US and that diplomatic timing mattered.

“Well, we believe that he will go once the situation is right for him to go. But he has been to America. I mean, I was with him at the U.N. when he took office,” the minister said