APC , the current government of Nigeria has continued in disappointing Nigerians with poor foreign policies leading to more ban of Nigerians by the USA and UAE.
Nigerians woke to that terrible news from the U.S department of state updating its reciprocal noimmigrant visa policy with 3-month validity and UAE imposing fresh visa conditions as well..
@firstladyship tried eucidating what could possibly happen on her X handle..
“On Obasanjo’s watch, America won’t dare limit Nigerians to a 3 months single-entry visa.
While Nigerians are yet to recover from the devastating news of US Visa Restriction, the UAE just imposed fresh visa conditions on Nigerians, & banned transit visa as well.
Nigerians who are Permanent Residents of Canada got 10-year US visitation visa. With the new policy? They will get 3 months only.
On the issue of Visa limitation, America was issuing 5 years for visit, & 2 years for study to Nigerians. While they did that for years, Nigeria limited its visa to Americans to just 3 months.
The United States didn’t just wake up to limit its ‘single-entry’ visa to Nigerians to 3 months. It simply reciprocated in kind. While nations use the “Doctrine of Reciprocity” to target one another, the issues are deeper than we know.
The APC messed up our ‘Foreign Policy.’ They messed up our lives as well. Countries yet to ban Nigerians, have placed restrictions on us.
The APC touched every aspect of our lives in the most negative of ways one can think of.
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To this day, I find it difficult (& I dare say extremely difficult) to address Bola Ahmed Tinubu & Muhammadu Buhari as presidents. Nigerians didn’t deserve the double (back to back) tragedies. Do you know what’s worse? The realization that I’m not alone.
Your Green Passport suffered the worst fate in 12 years. We wake up every morning to updated news of Visa ban & Visa Restrictions.
And instead of diplomatically engaging other nations to either resolve or reverse the reciprocal policies, the APC have rather put the blame on Nigerians. They blame the behavior of Nigerians abroad, they blame Yahoo Boys as well. They blame everyone else but themselves.
But no nation is free of crime, & we know the so-called culprits are not entirely the reason for the ban/restrictions. Nigerians are not the worst kind, we are not the most criminally-minded, we are simply the loudest.
Reciprocal Policy is the major reason for the ban & restrictions. Your Foreign Policy on Immigration is one the most stringent in the world. Nigerian visa is one of the most difficult to get. Ask any foreigner, they will tell how difficult the process of getting Nigerian visa is.
Then again, you cannot become a Nigerian through marriage. Nigeria won’t confer its citizenship to you for marrying a Nigerian.
For a nation desperately looking for foreign investments, Nigeria is a sorry excuse of a Foreign Policy. But I know it’s not difficult to fix.
We’ve done it before. Obasanjo was the man with the best Foreign Policy. On his watch, Nigerians could visit many countries without much of a hassle. He ushered in a ‘Sense of New Pride’ in Nigeria. On his watch? Nigeria became the ‘Promise on the Continent.’
Millennials can attest to what I speak of. For the first time in a long while, Nigerians were proud of their country. Obasanjo was the man that grew your GDP (0.58-6.06%) for the first time.
The APC did not only destroy your Economy & Unity, they destroyed your Passport as well. There is no excuse for that, no forgiveness.
APC have not fixed anything in 12 years. The best they have done was make every situation worse. Right now? We need a president who can move us back to 2015 at the very least.
From there, Nigerians can begin to pick up their pieces. BAT can never be an option. We must kill APC, or they will kill Nigeria. The choice is before us. The choices we make, make us.”