Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to
President Muhammadu Buhari, has clarified that Buhari did not discuss the issue
of same sex marriage with President Barrack Obama but with lawmakers from the
United States.
It will be recalled that Adesina had earlier posted on his
Twitter handle that “the issue of gay marriage came up here yesterday. PMB was
point blank. Sodomy is against the law in Nigeria, and abhorrent to our
culture”.
Following reactions from Nigerians that the issue was not on
the agenda with the U.S president;
Adesina made further clarification that the same sex marriage issue came
up at the joint session of Senate and House Committees on Foreign Affairs, not
in direct talks with Obama. He added that talks shifted to another matter once
Buhari emphatically stated Nigeria’s stand on same sex marriage.
“The same sex marriage issue came up at the joint session of
Senate and House Committees on Foreign Affairs, not in direct talks with Obama.
Talks shifted to another matter once PMB emphatically stated Nigeria’s stand on
same sex marriage. The issue was not pushed,” he noted on his Twitter handle.
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