A day after designating Nigeria as a Nation of Explicit Concern over false allegations of Christian genocide, US President Donald Trump has threatened army motion towards the nation.
In a post made on Fact Social on Saturday, Mr Trump warned that the US army may be ordered to invade the nation and “wipe out the unconventional Islamic terrorist” answerable for the claimed assaults on Christians if the Nigerian authorities fails to behave.
“If the Nigerian Authorities continues to permit the killing of Christians, the USA might very properly go into that now disgraced nation, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to fully wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who’re committing these horrible atrocities,” he wrote.
Mr Trump additionally warned that the US will halt all support to Nigeria, whereas noting that he has ordered the Division of Struggle to arrange for attainable army motion.
He said that the US army motion towards Nigeria could be “quick, vicious, and candy.”
He wrote in capital letters, “Warning: The Nigerian authorities higher transfer quick.”
The Nigerian authorities earlier denied allegations of Christian genocide in Nigeria, following Mr Trump’s declare that Christianity faces an existential risk in Nigeria.
President Bola Tinubu pointed out that such portrayals made by Mr Trump don’t replicate the nation’s actuality.
He additionally mentioned that the nation strictly upholds the constitutional ensures of spiritual liberty and doesn’t encourage spiritual intolerance.
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“Spiritual freedom and tolerance have been a core tenet of our collective identification and shall all the time stay so,” he mentioned
The Ministry of International Affairs additionally earlier said that Nigeria is dedicated to tackling the violent extremism “fueled by particular pursuits who’ve helped drive such decay and division in international locations throughout the intersecting West African and Sahel areas.”
In the meantime, the designation of Nigeria as a rustic of concern adopted months of campaigns and calls for by some Republican lawmakers for the US to sanction Nigeria for permitting the “persecution of Christians.”
The officers had additionally falsely accused the federal authorities of facilitating this anti-Christian campaign in an try to rid the nation of Christians.
