Aliyu Madaki, a member of the
house of representatives, has asked US President Donald Trump not to bring his
“divisive politics” into Nigeria.
He said this on Tuesday in
reaction to a comment Trump made when he recently hosted President Muhammadu Buhari
last week.
Trump had told Buhari, during
their meeting, that America would not accept the killing of Christians in
Nigeria.
“We have had very serious
problems with Christians who are being murdered in Nigeria, we are going to be
working on that problem very, very hard because we cannot allow that to
happen,” he had said.
Responding, Buhari said his
administration was working hard to address the widespread killings.
The statement had generated
criticism from various quarters, including the Muslim Rights Concerned (MURIC)
who urged Nigerian Christians to “not allow themselves to be deceived by
Trump”.
Raising a matter of privilege on
the floor of the house on Tuesday, Madaki said he expected Buhari to “correct”
the American leader over the comment.
“The day Trump said Christians
are being killed in Nigeria, I expected Buhari to correct him that others are
also being killed,” he said.
“We must not allow anybody
including the US president to bring divisive politics into Nigeria.”
The lawmaker said Trump is “known
to be a bigot, a racist, a demagogue, restating that “he (the US leader) must
not bring divisive politics into Nigeria.”
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