The United States has assured Nigeria that a repeat of what happened in Afghanistan would not occur in our country.

Giving this assurance in Abuja during a meeting with journalists, US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Leonard, said that Nigeria and Afghanistan’s situations are different.

The US Ambassador said that Nigeria has enjoyed a strong bilateral relationship with the US, saying that the situations are not the same.

While allaying worries that the US partnership with Nigeria might end up like that of Afghanistan, Leonard added, “I hear people making the analogy with Afghanistan a lot, it does not match up.

“When you listen to what President Biden said on how troops went to Afghanistan in the first place, it was because they were in a horrible tragedy, over 3,000 Americans were killed.

“That is a different construct. The sovereign nations who have had strong bilateral relations. I don’t actually think the two match up.”