President Bola Tinubu has condemned the assassination attempt on former United States president, Donald Trump.
Trump, who is the presidential candidate of the Republican party in the United States coming election, was shot at at a political rally last Saturday in Pennsylvania.
The former president, who escaped the assassination attempts by the whiskers, said “I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation disclosed that 20-year-old Thomas Crooks had fired multiple gunshots, killing one while two others sustained injuries.
The secret service said the shooter committed the act from “an elevated position outside the rally” before being “neutralised” by agents.
Reacting to the incident through a statement he personally signed and shared on his official X handle yesterday, President Tinubu said the attack on Trump was distasteful ans beyond the pale of democratic norms
Tinubu noted that violence had no place in democracy and wished the former US president a quick recovery.
“I extend my sympathies to the former President and wish him relief. I also condole with the family of the deceased and those wounded and wish them a quick recovery.
“Nigeria stands in solidarity with the United States of America at this time,” he wrote.
