US faces criticisms, as Trump threatens military action in Nigeria over alleged ‘Christian genocide’
*Nigerian government insists US president’s claim misrepresenting country
*”Trump we know your plan but remember God is greater than you” – Aisha Muhammad
* “I don’t blame Trump, I blame Nigerian and other African leaders who put their heads under the West for selfish reasons” – Concerned Citizen
By KEMI KASUMU with Agencies
An unnamed source said, “When you see and pretend like you see nothing, official activities of religious overzealous bigots much exposed by widespread media and publicity efforts of Muslim Rights Concerns (MURIC), Muslim Public Affairs Centre (MPAC) among even Muslim students’ parents, it is now the unofficial activities of criminal terrorists whose victims are more largely that you now so much take serious and using to blackmail the Nigerian government and Muslims to put them at dangerous image conditions. No way.”
US President Donald Trump on Saturday said that he had ordered the Pentagon to begin planning for potential military action in Nigeria as he stepped up his criticism that the government is failing to rein in the persecution of Christians in the West African country.
“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and 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 posted on social media.
“I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians!”
In the meantime, government and many other Nigerians especially from the Muslim community have either denied Trump’s claims or are accusing the United States president of hiding behind and taking side with unsubstantiated and imbalanced report of ‘Christian genocide’ to cause ‘divide and conquer’ war strategy to destroy the agelong achievements of inter-religion leadership of Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar and some supportive uncompromisingly patriotic Christian leaders.
Nigeria’s leader Bola Ahmed, it would be recalled, had earlier pushed back against the US president’s claim that his country’s Christians face an ‘existential threat’.
This is even as some other citizens wonder how a country, where Muslim men and women continue to face religious discrimination, marginalization and persecution across official sectors especially where Muslim kids are either killed or banned from entering school because of hijab despite running under a Muslim-Muslim presidency, is now indefensibly taken by President Trump as country of particular concerns taking sides.
An unnamed concerned citizen said, “When you see and pretend like you see nothing, official activities of religious overzealous bigots much exposed by widespread media and publicity efforts of Muslim Rights Concerns (MURIC), Muslim Public Affairs Centre (MPAC) among even Muslim students’ parents, it is now the unofficial activities of criminal terrorists whose victims are more largely that you now so much take serious and using to blackmail the Nigerian government and Muslims to put them at dangerous image conditions. No way. I don’t blame Trump, I blame Nigerian and other African leaders who put their heads under the West for selfish reasons.”
The warning of possible military action came after Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu earlier on Saturday pushed back on Trump announcing a day earlier that he was designating the West African country “a country of particular concern” for allegedly failing to rein in the persecution of Christians.
In a social media statement on Saturday November 1, 2025, Tinubu said that the characterisation of Nigeria as a religiously intolerant country does not reflect the national reality.
“Religious freedom and tolerance have been a core tenet of our collective identity and shall always remain so,” Tinubu said.
He added that, “Nigeria opposes religious persecution and does not encourage it. Nigeria is a country with constitutional guarantees to protect citizens of all faiths.”
A Nigerian female online vendor and public affairs analyst, Aisha Muhammad, in a post pictorially illustrated, criticised US President Donald Trump for wanting to turn the Africa’s most populous country to a war zone that benefits no other him and his country.
“The American political establishment are always looking for places to sell weapons , destabilize nation and steal nations resources it is to their advantage.
“They will soon become defence contractors and security giving protections to VVIPs in your country while they plunder your natural resources. Donald J. Trump President Donald J.
“Trump we know your plan but remember God is greater than you and all the enemies of our nation. You never tagged the killings of innocent people in Gaza as genocide but tagged the terrorism act where Muslims are most hit in the north as genocide against Christians.
“The good thing is that whatever you are planning against us will affect Muslims, Christians and idol worshippers EXCEPT you will move all Nigerian Christians to USA,” she said.
