Senator Ted Cruz has apologised for his comments on Nigerians where he said “You may have noticed that all the Nigerian email scammers have become a lot less active lately. They all have been hired to run the Obamacare website.”

A Nigerian ambassador Ade Adefuye had attacked him when he spoke to Politico demanding an apology demanding an apology from the Senator. Ted cruz got the message an has apologised.

The full statement of his apology after the jump:



It’s unfortunate that we’re living in a time where just about every joke can be misconstrued to cause offense to someone.

To the good people of Nigeria - a beautiful nation where my wife lived briefly as the child of missionaries - no offense was intended.

I am fully appreciative of the range of mutual economic and security interests that make Nigeria an important friend to the United States.

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 Obamacare website.

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apology accepted