It appeared that Obasanjo and Carter hit it off immediately. How a military head of state and a democrat struck that level of cordiality with such near unbelievable speed remains unclear.
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From that point on, Obasanjo and Carter interacted frequently like brothers or equals, while Nigeria-US relations took on a more significantly positive direction, going forward.
At 6 p.m. Nigerian time on 12 May, 1977, one of Carter’s top appointees, Richard Cooper, arrived Lagos from Washington. He ate dinner that night at the residence of the then US ambassador to Nigeria, Donald Easum. The following morning, Cooper, an under-secretary of state for economic affairs, executed his principal mission for visiting the world’s most populous black nation.
On Monday, 10 October, 1977, Obasanjo and his party flew into Washington, landing at the Andrews Air Force Base at 5 p.m. American time. The Nigerian leader was accompanied by the Commissioner for External Affairs, Joseph Garba; a member of the Supreme Military Council and Commander of the Army’s Second Division, Major General Martin Adamu; Principal Secretary to the Head of State, Mohammed Arzika; and Ambassadors Olujimi Jolaoso , Haruna ibn Musa and Joseph Abe Oladele Aladiri .
The letters between Obasanjo and Carter indicate how hugely influential Nigeria was in world affairs at the time. Obasanjo was firm and friendly. Carter made sure to court him consistently and to regularly reassure him of America’s support for matters dear to Nigeria, in particular, and Africa, in general. In one letter of 1 June, 1978, Obasanjo was acerbic as he accused the West, including the United States, of seeking to destabilise Africa.
4 attack on Cassinga has caused a serious interruption to the five’s efforts, but we hope that we can soon solve the remaining problems and reach our objective of concluding an agreement on Namibia.n my speech at the U.S. Naval Academy last week, I publicly reconfirmed the basic commitment of the United States to affirmative policies in Africa that recognise African realities and aspirations.
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