The initial report was attributed to the Federal Government’s decision to affirm the One China Policy, but the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam GARBA SHEHU said the report was incorrect.
GARBA SHEHU noted in a statement that the correct position was that the official relationship between Nigeria and Taiwan had been at the level of trade representation and that it has not changed from what it used to be.
The Presidential spokesman said Taiwan trade office is the only Taiwanese representation in Nigeria and Nigeria’s trade office in Taipei is the country’s only representation in Taiwan.
He maintained that Nigeria recognises and will sustain the One China Policy and nothing has happened so far to change that level of relationship.
The Presidential spokesman was however silent on a section of the initial report that Taiwan had been asked to move its office from Abuja to Lagos.
The information was attributed to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, SOLA ENIKANOLAIYE.
But Taiwan objected to the move and accused the Nigerian government of bowing to pressure from China in a bid to isolate it.
