STATEMENT ON US PRESIDENT TRUMP'S INTENSION TO INTERVENE AGAINST KILLING OF CHRISTIANS IN NIGERIA
Eleven years ago, before Mr. Bola Ahmed Tinubu railroaded the Nigerian system to declare him President over us, Tinubu wrote these exact words on his official Twitter handle, now X, of January 19, 2014: "The slaughtering of Christian worshippers is strongly condemnable. It calls to question the competence of Jonathan to protect Nigerians."
At the time Tinubu made that statement in January of 2014, authoritative data provides that 11,000 Christians in Nigeria were killed by Islamists during a four-year period of the PDP's rule from 2009 to 2014. This genocide figure was by Boko Haram alone. Then another dimension of Christian massacres began from 2010 when Jihad extremists masquerading as Fulani herdsmen murdered another 6,500 Christians in another four-year period between 2010 and 2015. This was just before the Buhari and Tinubu APC merger successfully took over the federal government of Nigeria.
In comparison, with Nigeria under his watch as President and under just two years of Tinubu's administration between 2023 and 2025, the number of Christians massacred by Islamic extremists skyrocketed to 14,122, an almost 100% casualty increase in time ratio compared to the PDP years.
Nigerians will recall that In order to rid the PDP and Jonathan government by portraying that administration as incompetent before Nigerians and the globe, especially in the security front, and to justify take over federal power, the same Tinubu and late former President Muhammadu Buhari led a high-powered delegation of their APC merger stalwarts to the United States to meet then US Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry. This was on January 25, 2015.
The mission was to drive home the point that insecurity in Nigeria was intolerable and they needed the support of the US government to help stop the genocide in Nigeria by getting rid of the Goodluck Jonathan administration.
It is therefore terribly wicked, godless and extremely unpatriotic of Bola Tinubu, now as President, to deny that there are no targeted Christian massacres in Nigeria. It is the height of shameless selfishness, betrayal of the Nigeria constitution and treason for either him, any regime agent or agency speaking for the administration to deny that there are no Christian massacres in Nigeria. This is especially considering that the figure of victims that made Tinubu and Buhari to lead a protest delegation to the United States in 2015 has now doubled under Tinubu's administration.
This is why, in the view of the Labour Party, we consider the offer of President Donald Trump to help Nigerians out of our security calamity under the current Tinubu-APC administration is godsent, timely and highly commendable.
The Labour Party therefore wishes to express heartfelt commendations on behalf of Nigerians to President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Sen. Ted Cruz, the United States Secretary of War Peter Hegseth, ex-Mayor Mike Arnold and other Americans for the immense work of research, evaluation and conviction they have demonstrated in their intervention initiative.
In their planned interventions, the Labour Party also wishes to entreat the US government to extend protection and sustainable security cover to liberal and moderate Muslim communities whose members are also targeted and in some occasions killed because of their sympathy or support for their Christian neighbours who are under the yoke of Islamic extremists' massacre, livelihood deprivations through violent farmland dispossession and displacements across many parts of Northern Nigeria and the Middle Belt states of our country.
The Labour Party hereby also commends several Nigeria Muslim voices who have demonstrated remarkable patriotism in supporting the Donald Trump initiative to help protect their Nigerian Christian brethren, terror sacked communities and their livelihood for collective peace and progress. They have shown by their novel spirit of mutual humanity that one united Nigeria, irrespective of religion and political differences, is truly possible, if we have good leaders in place.
It is this kind of pan-Nigeria spirit and undiscriminating interfaith harmony Nigeria urgently needs today to overcome and put behind us the terrorist catastrophés that has been covertly promoted by Nigeria's successive governments since 2009 and which has come to a devastating climax in President Bola Tinubu's Muslim-Muslim regime.
Finally, we wish to heartily salute US music icon, Miss Nicki Minaj, for using her global youths and Gen-Z platform to draw attention to the genocide, unimaginable IDP homeland displacement crises and despair of millions of Northern Nigeria citizens who, though mostly Christians, have admixture of
collateral Muslim victims among them.
The Labour Party wishes to implore other famous artistes, sportsmen, movie stars, writers and philanthropic industrialists all over the globe to emulate Miss Minaj's sterling humanitarian heart, practical compassion and example. This is in the hope that their collective voice, oncoming global solidarity mobilization and sequel humanitarian concerts for millions of Nigeria's IDPs will spur President Tinubu, his administration's National Security Adviser, Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, and the government's Minister of Defence, Mr. Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, and Minister of State for Defence, Mr. Bello Muhammad Matawalle, to abolish their despicable, complicit long standing policy of pacifying these soulless mass murderers with billions of Nigerians' taxpayers money.
The above disgraceful policy, to borrow President Trump's word, involves officials and military brass of the Tinubu federal government regularly sitting with fully armed terrorists, ransom kidnapping bandits and rapists, including attending the marriage of children of these mass murderers in their forest lairs. A terrorist engagement policy unheard-of anywhere in the world.
*Tony Akeni Le Moin*
Labour Party National
Publicity Secretary (Interim)
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