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From Bamigbola Gbolagunte, Akure
Former Minister of Aviation and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has declared that the main intention of US President Donald Trump over his claim of Christian genocide in Nigeria was to cause religious war in the country.
Fani-Kayode, who was the keynote speaker at the opening of the 2025 conference of the Akure branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) held at the Dome in Akure, the Ondo State capital, on Tuesday, faulted the claims of Trump regarding Christian genocide in the country.
The former minister, who bemoaned the activities of terrorists in the country, stressed the need for the government to eliminate terrorists and not pardon them for any reason.
He said, “I do not believe in dialogue with them or forgiving them. I do not believe in negotiation with them. I do not believe in pampering them or managing them. I do not believe in rehabilitating them into the Nigerian Armed Forces. I believe in crushing them and sending them to their maker, and in doing s,o quickly and decisively.
“This has been my position for the last 20 years, and it will always be my position. Demons and vampires do not have any place in the land of the living and they have no right to life. The Bible tells us that there can be no fellowship between light and darkness and you either choose God or Belial. I choose God.
“Every single one of them, whether they be Boko Haram, ISWAP, Ansaru, Al Qaeda, JNIR, Lakurawa, the killer herdsmen, the kidnapping bandits or any other must be despatched to hell where they came from and our country must be cleansed of their filth and verminous evil. They are a cancerous plague that must be eradicated with clinical precision and by brute force.
“Outside of that I believe that genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, war crimes and mass murder of the most horrendous nature has been carried out by each of these groups in Nigeria over the last 20 years against Christians and I have been saying so for many years perhaps more than anyone else but today there is a difference and a caveat that makes the problem even more horrendous than it already is and which we ignore at our own peril.
“The caveat and difference, and this has been so for the last ten years and is a fact that many, including yours truly, were totally oblivious and blind to is the fact that their villainous and callous butchery was not limited to Christians alone: they butcher the Muslims too and they do so in equal if not greater numbers,” he added.
On the threat by Trump, the former Minister said “his intention is not to help our country fight the terrorists and rid us of them but to subject her to the same thing they did to Yugoslavia in the 1990s by bombing the entire country to smithereens, shattering our fragile unity and breaking us up into five or more smaller countries and vassal states each of which will be compelled to have U.S. military bases, each of which will take orders from Washington and each of which they will control, manipulate and dominate.”
He added that “it is true that Christians have suffered immeasurably in our country over the years and have been subjected to genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass murder, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the most vicious and pernicious forms of persecution at the hands of foreign-backed terrorists and Islamist militias but it is not true that they are the only ones that have suffered this terrible fate and horrendous ordeal.”
He lamented that Muslims have suffered the same fate and in equal measure at the hands of the same barbaric monsters and terrorists.
