Nigerian President Bola Tinubu was in South Africa in June 2024 for the second full-term swearing-in ceremony of Cyril Ramaphosa. Social media posts sharing videos from the event claimed Ramaphosa ignored Tinubu as he was greeting other dignitaries — a mark, they argued, of Nigeria’s waning reputation.
But the claim is false: longer footage shows the South African leader returned to greet Tinubu and other guests after pausing moments earlier for the country’s national anthem. The pair also spoke later in Tinubu's hotel room.
“Nigeria seems to have lost all manner of respect of the international community with the sham elections of 2023 and the indecent character that has been put at their helm. See as the South African president tacitly avoided his Nigerian counterpart while thanking other African presidents for making out time to honour his invitation.
Twenty-two seconds into the video, a voice starts speaking in Igbo — a language predominantly spoken in Nigerian’s south-eastern zone where Tinubu’swhen the separatist group Indigenous People of Biafra began fighting for independence, a struggle that continues to this day showing Ramaphosa being led into Tinubu’s hotel room by Nigeria’s national security adviser Nuhu Ribadu (archived“It lifted my spirits and that of South Africans as a whole that the president of Africa’s biggest nation will...
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