Nigeria hits back at Trump: Prez Tinubu rejects claims of attacks on Christians

Nigeria has rejected what it described arsenic its portrayal arsenic a “religiously intolerant” country, aft US President Donald Trump directed the Department of War to hole for a imaginable subject involution successful Africa’s astir populous federation implicit attacks connected Christians by "Islamic terrorists.

"Also Read | 'Guns-a-blazing': Donald Trump threatens US subject enactment successful Nigeria; vows to halt assistance implicit Christian killings"The characterisation of Nigeria arsenic religiously intolerant does not bespeak our nationalist reality, nor does it instrumentality into information the accordant and sincere efforts of the authorities to safeguard state of beliefs for each Nigerians," President Bola Ahmed Tinubu said successful a statement.Nigeria, helium added, is simply a "country with law guarantees to support citizens of each faiths."

"Our medication is committed to moving with the United States authorities and the planetary assemblage to deepen knowing and practice connected extortion of communities of each faiths," arsenic per the statement.The effect came aft Trump, successful a societal media station connected Friday, claimed that “Christianity is facing an existential menace successful Nigeria” and alleged that “radical Islamists are liable for this wide slaughter.” “If the Nigerian Government continues to let the sidesplitting of Christians, the U.S.A. volition instantly halt each assistance and assistance to Nigeria, and whitethorn precise good spell into that present disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to wholly hitch retired the Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities.

I americium hereby instructing our Department of War to hole for imaginable action. If we attack, it volition beryllium fast, vicious, and sweet, conscionable similar the violent thugs onslaught our cherished Christians! WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!” Trump wrote connected his Truth Social platform.Nigeria, with a colonisation of astir 220 million—the sixth largest successful the world—is astir evenly divided betwixt Christians and Muslims. The state has agelong grappled with insecurity connected aggregate fronts, including unit by the extremist radical Boko Haram, which seeks to enforce its extremist mentation of Islamic instrumentality and has targeted some Christians and Muslims it deems "insufficiently devout."