Congress is expected to receive formal notification within
weeks, setting in motion a deal with Nigeria that the Obama administration had
planned to approve at the very end of Barack Obama’s presidency.
The arrangement will call for Nigeria to purchase up to 12
Embraer A-29 Super Tucano aircraft with sophisticated targeting gear for nearly
$600 million, one of the officials said.
The officials were not authorized to discuss the terms of
the sale publicly and requested anonymity to speak about internal diplomatic
conversations.
Though President Donald Trump has made clear his intention
to approve the sale of the aircraft, the National Security Council is still
working on the issue. Military sales to several other countries are also
expected to be approved but are caught up in an ongoing White House review.
Nigeria has been trying to buy the aircraft since 2015.
Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., the chairman of the Foreign
Relations Committee, said this past week that he supported the A-29 deal to
Nigeria as well as the sale of U.S.-made fighter jets to Bahrain that had been
stripped of human rights caveats imposed by the Obama administration.
-dailytrust
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