A political science and international relations professor at the University of Abuja, Abubakar Sadeeque Abba, has claimed that the recent invasion threat and anger expressed by President Donald Trump are linked to President Bola Tinubu’s funding of Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign.

“To stop Tinubu from becoming president in 2027. I can swear by my Quran. Because Tinubu was among the people who contributed money to give to Kamala Harris for her campaign, and Trump has vengeance, he will never forgive that,” Mr Abba said on Trust TV.

The professor added, “Look, what Trump is coming to Nigeria to do is not about Nigeria’s Christians or Muslims, nor Northerners or Southerners. It is why did Tinubu, through France, mobilised, including Macron, money for Kamala Harris. They knew that if Trump became the American president, there was going to be a problem for the whole world. That is the first reason,” Mr Abba explained.

Mr Abba also identified America’s interest in Nigeria’s oil and energy resources as another underlying reason, stemming from its sour relationship with oil-producing countries in the Arab world.

“The second reason is that the American stronghold in the Middle East is slipping away from their fingers. They needed another stronghold of energy resources, oil. The Arab kingdoms are facing the greatest challenges of their life,” the professor pointed out. “There are inside storms brewing politically because there are common men tired, and it is only America that is holding them down.”

Mr Abba explained that American intelligence “has shown that they cannot keep on holding these people in the next 10 to 15 years”.

“Nigeria is a very hot spot for them. Nigeria, Angola, and Algeria are some of the areas that they are looking at. Our energy experts are saying that the oil reserve in Nigeria is far more than in the Arab countries. And America knows that more than anybody else,” he stated.

He attributed the third reason to Mr Tinubu’s reserved relationship with the Western world, noting that the Nigerian president maintains only what he considered the most cordial relationship with France and its president, Emmanuel Macron.

“The third reason, which is very fundamental, is that for the first time in so long a time, since Abacha, Tinubu was the first president in this country to look away from the Western world. In fact, France is the only friend Tinubu has. Nigeria is not depending on France. It is France and Macron that are depending on Tinubu and Nigerians now,” the international relations expert said.