President Bola Tinubu has been implored to avoid confrontation with the newly inaugurated 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump.
A Professor of Political Science, Bolaji Akinyemi gave the advice while featuring on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Monday.
The university lecturer described Trump’s inaugural speech as uninspiring, shocking, and depressing.
“If I were President Tinubu, I would try to steer clear of antagonising him because there is nothing a bully likes more than taking on people who are not strong enough to resist him.
“You know there is that African proverb that if you are not strong enough to take on a bully and you challenge him, you will only suffer more for it.
“That’s the advice I would give President Tinubu: try to avoid having a confrontation with him, even if that means he does things that annoy or step on the interests of Nigeria. There are ways in which you could address his actions without confrontation,” Akinyemi stated.
The former Director General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs. NIIA, observed that rather than rallying the world for peace, Trump used his speech to threaten the rest of the world with a bouquet of hostile policies.
The don said the US president would soon learn that there are repercussions to policies and jingoism, noting that the world is in for a rough ride with the coming back on board of Trump presidency.
The former Nigerian Minister of External Affairs was of the view that Nigeria shouldn’t expect anything extraordinary from the Trump presidency.
Trump was on Monday sworn in as the 47th president of US, four years after an electoral defeat that truncated his second-term ambition.
