On Monday Oct. 21st, US Republican Senator Ted Cruz told a rally that Nigerian email scammers have been hired to run the Obamacare website, a comment that didn't go down well with Nigerians and some even found it very offensive.
After being bombarded with several phone calls from Nigerians in Houston and all across the US, the office of Ted Cruz has issued a statement from the Senator apologizing for what he said.
The full statement reads: it's unfortunate that we are living in times
where about every joke can be misconstrued to cause offense to soemone.
To the good peopls of Nigeria - a beautiful nation where muy wife lived briefly as the child of missionaries - no offence was intended.
Iam fully appreciative of the range of mutual economic and security interest that make Nigeria an important friend to the united state.
And even to those few unscrupulous email scammers who were the subject of the joke, I apologize to you for the unfair comparison to the utterly dysfunctional Obama-care website.
Masquerade234 believes its the power of Naija, that elicited the apology and this goes to show we Good People, Great Nation.
To the good peopls of Nigeria - a beautiful nation where muy wife lived briefly as the child of missionaries - no offence was intended.
Iam fully appreciative of the range of mutual economic and security interest that make Nigeria an important friend to the united state.
And even to those few unscrupulous email scammers who were the subject of the joke, I apologize to you for the unfair comparison to the utterly dysfunctional Obama-care website.
Masquerade234 believes its the power of Naija, that elicited the apology and this goes to show we Good People, Great Nation.
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