{"id":124617,"date":"2025-12-27T10:23:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T09:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=124617"},"modified":"2025-12-27T10:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T09:23:19","slug":"us-air-strike-pdp-slams-fgs-for-allowing-trump-break-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/us-air-strike-pdp-slams-fgs-for-allowing-trump-break-news\/","title":{"rendered":"US Air Strike: PDP Slams FG\u2019s for allowing Trump break news"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Myke Agunwa<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has criticised the Federal Government for allowing Nigerians to learn about the United States military strike on terrorist assets in Nigeria through American officials first, describing the delay as a damaging \u201cinverted communication approach\u201d that undermines national sovereignty.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement issued Friday by its National Publicity Secretary Comrade Ini Ememobong, the main opposition party expressed deep concern that President Donald Trump and other US officials announced the operation on their verified social media pages hours before the Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a vague confirmation of Nigeria\u2019s \u201cknowledge and cooperation.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhile international cooperation against terrorism is appreciated, we are deeply concerned about a communication structure where foreign powers break the news of security operations in our country before our government does,\u201d the PDP stated.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The party argued that the Federal Government should have been the first to inform citizens, \u201cunless they were taken unawares like the rest of us,\u201d adding that the episode evokes reports of previous unauthorised US military operations on Nigerian soil.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PDP urged the Tinubu government to prioritise proactive public sensitisation and ensure any defence agreement with the US emphasises joint operations for knowledge transfer and capacity building, rather than \u201cfull externally-led precision attacks.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis inverted approach does not help the Federal Government or Nigerians in any way,\u201d the statement concluded, calling for better coordination to sustainably combat insecurity.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Myke Agunwa The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has criticised the Federal Government for allowing Nigerians to learn about the United States military strike on terrorist assets in Nigeria through&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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