US President Donald Trump on Sunday repeated his trouble of a military operation in Nigeria over killings of Christians, after the Nigerian administration suggested a meeting to resolve the issue.
Asked by journalists aboard Air Force One if he was considering US colors on the ground in Nigeria or air strikes, Trump replied “ Could be, I mean, a lot of effects — I image a lot of effects. ”
“They’re killing the Christians and killing them in veritably large figures. We’re not going to allow that to be, ” he added.
In an explosive post on his verity Social platform on Saturday, Trump said that he asked the Pentagon to collude out a possible plan of attack in Nigeria, one day after advising that Christianity was “ facing an empirical trouble ” in Africa’s most vibrant country.
In his post, Trump said that if Nigeria does n’t stem the killings, the United States will attack and “ it will be presto, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist goons attack our favored Christians. ”
Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s spokesperson Daniel Bwala told AFP on Sunday that “ Nigeria is US’s mate in the global fight against terrorism. When leaders meet there would be better issues. ”
“Nigeria welcomes US support to fight terrorism as long as it respects our territorial integrity, ” he said.
“We don’t see the( Trump’s social media post) in the nonfictional sense, ” he said.
“We know that Donald Trump has his own style of communication, ” he said, suggesting the post was a way to “ force a sit- down between the two leaders so they can iron out a common front to fight their instability. ”
Before Bwala had suggested in a post on X that the two leaders could meet soon.
“As for the differences as to whether terrorists in Nigeria target only Christians or in fact all faiths and no faiths, the differences if they live, would be bandied and resolved by the two leaders when they meet in the coming days, either in State House or White House. ”
Bwala, who was speaking on the phone from Washington, declined to expose details of any implicit meeting.
Trump posted on Friday that “ thousands of Christians are being killed( and) Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass bloodbath. ”
Nigeria has denied that Christians have been targeted by jihadist attacks further than other faiths.
“The characterisation of Nigeria as religiously intolerant does n’t reflect our public reality, ” Tinubu said on social media Saturday.
