U.S., Nigeria And Buhari’s Drift “Toward Authoritarianism”, By Chido Nwangwu
U.S., Nigeria And Buhari’s Drift “Toward Authoritarianism”, By Chido Nwangwu
The influential magazine, Foreign Policy, established since 1970, first reported on July 27, 2021 that some U.S. lawmakers are holding-up a proposed sale of the Cobra attack helicopters to Nigeria due to “mounting concerns about the Nigerian government’s human rights record as its military grapples with multiple security crises at once.”
Operationally, that position is bipartisan. Consequently, the top Democrat and Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have “delayed clearing a proposed sale of 12 AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters and accompanying defense systems to the Nigerian military, pausing a deal worth some $875 million.”