Gambia Crisis: FG on standby to evacuate Nigerians – Dabiri-Erewa

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Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has said that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government is ‘on standby’ to evacuate Nigerians in the Gambia if the need arises.

This is following the refusal of President Yahaya Jammeh to step down after losing the country’s last Presidential election.

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Against this backdrop, Dabiri-Erewa, while responding to a Twitter user’s question stated that Nigeria was prepared to relocate its citizens should the need arise.

See Dabiri’s tweet to a curious Nigerian’s request below:

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