A British journalist and presenter, Kevin O’Sullivan, has criticised the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s visit to Nigeria, saying it is not a country that should be endorsed by anyone.

O’Sullivan’s comment comes after another British journalist, Christopher Wilson, who compared Nigerians to Nazis due to the royal couple’s visit.

Wilson, caused controversy with a now-deleted tweet comparing Nigeria’s human rights record to Nazi Germany’s, sparked by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s visit to the country to celebrate the Invictus Games, Harry’s tournament for wounded soldiers in Nigeria.

Wilson’s tweet, referencing historical events involving the Duke and Duchess of Windsor’s visit to Nazi Germany in 1937, drew widespread condemnation.

He mentioned Wallis Simpson’s tour of Germany with the Duke of Windsor in 1937 and insinuated a parallel between the and Prince Harry and Meghan’s visit to Nigeria.

“Desperate to show his wife they were still ‘royal’ in the eyes of the world, the Duke of Windsor took Wallis on a tour of Germany in 1937,” he wrote in a post on X.

“They were greeted ecstatically. Nigeria’s human rights record is not far short of Nazi Germany’s.”

O’Sullivan, a presenter on TalkTV, questioned Harry and Meghan’s visit to Nigeria, saying the royal family doesn’t just go anywhere.

He explained that such tours are planned years in advance and the countries that the royals honour with their visits are very carefully chosen.

He said,”There’s no way our royal family would set foot in Nigeria, a country where female genital mutilation is rife; where women’s rights basically don’t exist; and where hundreds of kids are regularly kidnapped by extremist Islamic groups.

“This is not a country that should be endorsed by anyone, certainly not our royal family and these two are naive in what they’re doing. They’re making this country look good when it doesn’t deserve it.”

O’Sullivan’s guest, royal correspondent and expert, Michael Cole agreed with every description about Nigeria.

“I couldn’t tell you the number of royal tours that I’ve been on and what you say is absolutely right,” Cole said. “Nigeria, the foreign office and the American State Department both say it’s a dangerous destination, you must not go there. It vies with Johannesburg, South Africa to be the murder capital of the continent.

“In that country, there’s industrial scale, volumes of people who are ripping off people around the world, internet fraud, wholesale internet fraud, defrauding old ladies, stealing identities and none of that is ever prosecuted.”