By Don Silas Ukraine President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has come under fire for congratulating Nigeria’s President-elect, Bola Tinubu, w...
By Don Silas
Ukraine President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has come under fire
for congratulating Nigeria’s President-elect, Bola Tinubu, who won last
Saturday’s 2023 presidential election.
Zelensky had, in a tweet via his Twitter handle on Thursday,
while congratulating Tinubu, said his country was ready to work with Nigeria to
overcome global challenges, including threats to food security.
He tweeted: “Congratulations @officialABAT on the victory in the election of the President of Nigeria. I look forward to close cooperation. I am convinced that the two-way interaction 🇺🇦 and 🇳🇬 will strengthen. Ukraine is determined to work together to overcome global challenges, including threats to food security!”
However, some Twitter users, mostly Nigerians, trolled
Zelensky over his congratulatory tweet to Tinubu, while others supported the
Ukrainian President.
Here are some tweets gathered by DAILY POST on Twitter:
@obanojnr, “Nigerians are right now in grief.. please don’t
add to it.. Wishing someone CONGRATULATIONS who rigged his way into power is
very wrong.. so many Nigerians were injured, died in the course of last
election..For this, I say CONGRATULATIONS TO RUSSIA..
@OdinKinetic, “Congratulations to Putin and the Russian
federation. We the citizens of Nigeria stand with you and God will always
protect the people of Russia.”
@IjeleMela, “Corrupt people always know how to align with
one another. This guy is probably very corrupt.”
@WeriseB, “May Putin never leave Ukraine!! Amen!”
@TheOliviaMead, “You will not get any money from Nigeria!
Get out!”
“Our democracy was invaded and you are congratulating the
man … on behalf of Ukrainians,” @aai_austin claimed in reply.”
@valentinowpg said, “Mr. President you may have to do this
congratulation once again in the nearest future. We know when you won your
presidential election, it was the will of Ukrainians that voted for you and
voted out the pro-Russian govt. Ours wasn’t the will of the people. Good luck
in the war.”
“It is now obvious that Zelensky has not learnt enough
lessons.”
@gaiuschibueze said, “No wonder Russia wants to run over
your country.”
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