…Tinubu calm despite Trump’s threat – FG
A former director of the Department of State Services (DSS), Mike Ejiofor, has advised the Federal Government to take US President Donald Trump’s Christian genocide claims and threat of military action seriously.
Ejiofor, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today, told the Nigerian government to explore diplomatic means to resolve the issue.
“I think the Federal Government should take Donald Trump seriously. I’m calling on the Nigerian government to explore all diplomatic channels,” he said on Tuesday’s edition of the current affairs show.
Last week, Trump, in an explosive post on his Truth Social Platform, threatened military action in Nigeria over what he says is a mass slaughter of Christians, barely a day after he declared the nation a Country of Particular Concern (CPC).
“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,” he said on Truth Social.
“I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet.”
While the Federal Government has dismissed the allegations and restated its commitment to religious freedom, the ex-DSS director said Trump’s comment should not be merely waved aside as “play”.
“You see, it is a very serious matter when you talk of Donald Trump. I take a very serious exception to the statement credited to Donald Trump because he says what he wants to do, and he will go ahead to do it,” Ejiofor said. “So, it is not a play that we can gloss over. It is a threat.”
Meanwhile, the Federal Government of Nigeria has said that President Bola Tinubu remains calm despite threats from United States President Donald Trump over the security situation in Nigeria.
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, stated this on Tuesday while speaking with journalists shortly after meeting with President Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Idris reaffirmed Tinubu’s commitment to making Nigeria safer for all citizens, regardless of tribe, religion, or any other differences.
“Mr President is calm. He is looking at the whole situation; he is looking at the ways and means of ensuring that the international community understands what we have been doing.
“Only last week or two weeks ago, Mr President in his own desire to rekindle the security architecture of the country, reinvigorated the hierarchy of the armed forces.
“A new Chief of Defence Staff and other service chiefs were appointed. Now, this is all the issues that came out of the United States. So, that tells you that Mr President has been working assiduously to ensure that Nigeria is a country that remains safer for all Nigerians to live in,” the minister said.