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The United States President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he has asked the Defence Department to prepare for possible military action in Nigeria if the Nigerian government “continues to allow the killing of Christians.”
According to Reuters, Trump disclosed this in a statement on his Truth Social.
This comes after Trump on Friday designated Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern over alleged Christian genocide.
In a fresh statement, the U.S. government said it would also immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria.
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Trump said the U.S. may “very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing’, to completely wipe out the Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” Trump said, according to Reuters.
President Bola Tinubu has rejected United States President Donald Trump’s designation of Nigeria as a country of particular concern over alleged religious persecution.
Trump, on Friday, designated Nigeria as a ‘country of particular concern’, expressing concerns over a purported genocide on Christians in Nigeria.
However, in a statement on Saturday, Tinubu insisted that Nigeria is a democracy governed by constitutional guarantees of religious liberty.
The statement read: “Nigeria stands firmly as a democracy governed by constitutional guarantees of religious liberty.
“Since 2023, our administration has maintained an open and active engagement with Christian and Muslim leaders alike and continues to address security challenges which affect citizens across faiths and regions.
“The characterisation of Nigeria as religiously intolerant does not reflect our national reality, nor does it take into consideration the consistent and sincere efforts of the government to safeguard freedom of religion and beliefs for all Nigerians.
“Religious freedom and tolerance have been a core tenet of our collective identity and shall always remain so. Nigeria opposes religious persecution and does not encourage it.
