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Bayo Onanuga, spokesperson to President Bola Tinubu, has issued a stern warning to Senator Ted Cruz representing the State of Texas in the United States Senate.
Onanuga warned the lawmaker against propagating malicious lies against Nigeria on the issue of Christians being targeted in the country.
The presidential aide was reacting to Senator Cruz’s post on X where he accused officials in Nigeria of ignoring and even facilitating the mass murder of Christians by Islamist jihadists.
The lawmaker said that his “Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act would target these officials with powerful sanctions and other tools,” he wrote on X.
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The lawmaker added, “It’s time to hold those responsible accountable.”
In a response, Onanuga wrote, “Senator, stop these malicious, contrived lies against my country. We do not have a religious war in my country.
“The degraded Boko Haram terrorists operating on the fringes of Nigeria’s North east target everyone. They attack farmers, our soldiers. The bandits in the North west kill worshippers in their mosques.
“Christians are not targeted. We have religious harmony in our country. Stop these malicious lies.”
In other news, A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and 2023 Labour Party senatorial candidate for Ebonyi South, Hon. Linus Abaa-Okorie, has urged President Bola Tinubu to address what he described as the “systemic exclusion, demolitions, and ethnic profiling” of Igbos, which he said persist even after 65 years of Nigeria’s independence.
In a statement issued in Abakaliki, the former two-term lawmaker in the House of Representatives said the ongoing marginalisation of the South-East undermines Nigeria’s constitutional principles of federal character and inclusive governance.
Okorie lamented what he termed “institutionalised imbalance” in ministerial appointments, alleging that while the South-East is restricted to the bare constitutional minimum, some states in other regions enjoy multiple full cabinet-rank ministers. He also pointed to alleged infrastructural discrimination, citing figures showing that the South-West was allocated about N2.5 trillion for road construction, compared to the South-East’s N446 billion.
