President Bola Tinubu’s media aide Bayo Onanuga has said the lives of Muslims living in Nigeria also matter.
Onanuga made the remark on Saturday, while reacting to a
post on X by the United States, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the
alleged genocide against Christians in Nigeria.
Rubio had while reacting to the decision of President Donald
Trump’s administration to designate Nigeria a Country of Particular Concerns,
said the “ongoing slaughter of thousands of Christians in Nigeria by radical
Islamists and Fulani ethnic militias is both tragic and unacceptable.
“As @POTUS said, the United States stands ready, willing,
and able to act”.
However, Onanuga, who has consistently debunked the claim of
persecution of Christians in Nigeria, said in the comment section, “Secretary
Rubio, Muslim lives matter too”.
Onanuga further declared that there “is no ongoing slaughter
of thousands of Christians in Nigeria”, stressing that the claim is a “gross
exaggeration of the Nigerian situation”.
According to him, “What we do have are sporadic attacks on
some villages by bandits and terrorists and the attacks are religiously
insensitive. Christians, Muslims, churches and mosques are attacked randomly.
“What our country requires from America is military support
to fight these violent extremists in some states of our country, not
designation as a nation of particular concern”.
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