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Former Senate Chief Whip, Senator Ali Ndume, has said the remark by United States President Donald Trump connected alleged Christian genocide successful Nigeria was based connected ignorance.
Senator Ndume said President Trump was uninformed astir the country’s information situation.
Trump had successful a station connected his Truth societal media platform, claimed that Christians were being massacred successful Nigeria, announcing that helium had redesignated the state arsenic a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) and threatened subject enactment against“ terrorists attacking Christians.
Reacting to this during an interrogation connected ARISE Television, connected Tuesday, Senator Ndume said Trump’s connection showed deficiency of knowing of Nigeria’s analyzable insecurity challenges.
He said, “This is not to accidental Christians are not being killed. What we’ve been saying is that it’s not lone Christians — Muslims are besides being killed too,”
“This has been confirmed by some religions, there’s a batch of killings going connected successful Nigeria for the past 16 years and much from the Boko Haram insurgency successful 2009. Nobody tin contradict that.
“But to accidental exclusively that the Christians are being targeted depends connected wherever the lawsuit happens. If it happens successful Plateau oregon a Christian dominated area, people it is the Christians that volition beryllium the victims arsenic it is present successful Benue and Plateau.
“If you spell to different areas that are Muslim dominated, depending connected the benignant of criminality that is going connected there, the victims are people going to beryllium the Muslims.
“If a religion is attacked, the victims volition beryllium Christians, and if it’s a mosque the Muslims volition beryllium the victims. This is what’s going connected successful Nigeria close now.
“If a religion is attacked, the victims volition beryllium Christians, and if it’s a mosque, the Muslims volition beryllium the victims. That’s the reality,” Senator Ndume stated.
He said for the US President to marque specified a assertion was borne retired of ignorance. “Donald Trump himself is ignorant astir what is happening successful Nigeria.”
Ndume recalled a question precocious sponsored by him successful the Senate to code what helium called “misconceptions” surrounding Nigeria’s information crisis, and to urged the US authorities to reconsider its classification of Nigeria arsenic a CPC.
He further recalled that Nigeria was antecedently removed from the database during erstwhile President Muhammadu Buhari’s medication aft engagements with the US authorities to clarify the quality of the insurgency.
According to the Senator, the unit bedeviling parts of the state has continued to impact Nigerians of each faiths and backgrounds, saying it indispensable beryllium addressed arsenic a national, and not spiritual issue.
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