Borno Central Senator Ali Ndume has criticised the Federal Authorities and the Nationwide Meeting for failing to behave promptly to counter what he described because the rising “false impression” about spiritual persecution in Nigeria earlier than the USA reclassified the nation as a “Nation of Particular Concern”.
DAILY POST stories that former United States President Donald Trump, on Friday, through his Fact Social platform, declared Nigeria a Nation of Particular Concern, alleging that “Christianity is dealing with an existential menace within the nation.”
Trump additionally ordered that Nigeria be positioned on the watchlist for “significantly extreme violations of spiritual freedom.”
Reacting in a press release on Saturday, Ndume avowed that each the Tinubu administration and the Senate ignored earlier warnings and failed to have interaction Washington diplomatically earlier than the redesignation was introduced.
“I’ve alerted the federal government; I even moved a movement. Nigeria is a sovereign state. It isn’t about what the USA can do to us, however concerning the false impression and the ripple results of classifying us as a rustic of concern.
“We should always have interaction the American authorities by presenting info and figures. By participating the US authorities, we must always demand that they hear the opposite aspect of the story from the Nigerian authorities and the Muslim neighborhood.
“Muslims have been killed, too. The genocide isn’t in opposition to Christians however Nigerians typically,” he mentioned.
