Ali Ndume, a former Chief Whip and current Senator from Borno South, has blamed the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu government and the Senate for the fact that US President Donald Trump called Nigeria a “Country of Particular Concern.”
Ndume said in a statement yesterday in Abuja that both the executive and legislative branches were lazy. He said that their refusal to effectively engage the US administration about the alleged persecution of Christians in Nigeria led to the situation.
The senator remembered that he had previously sponsored a motion in the Senate about “Christian genocide” in the country, according to Sunday Trust.
He claimed that the motion led to resolutions that required the Nigerian government to work with the U.S. using verified facts and numbers.
On Friday, President Trump said that Nigeria would be called a “Country of Particular Concern” because of reports of Christians being persecuted there.
Trump made the news on his Truth Social platform, and the official White House X handle also shared it.
“Thousands of Christians are dying.” President Trump said, “Radical Islamists are to blame for this mass murder.”
The Nigerian administration quickly refuted the assertions, saying that Trump’s judgment did not accurately reflect the situation in the country.
Senator Ndume, on the other hand, said that the Tinubu administration and the Senate were too relaxed about the claim made by US lawmaker Riley Moore before Trump made his announcement. He also called on the federal government to quickly provide the US government with facts and figures about the activities of terrorist groups that he said were blind to faith.
“I’ve told the government, and I even made a motion. Nigeria is a sovereign state. It’s not about what the United States can do to us; it’s about the misunderstanding and the effects of calling us a country of concern.
We should talk to the American government by giving them facts and numbers. We should ask the US administration to listen to the other side of the story from the Nigerian government and the Muslim community when we talk to them. Muslims have also died. He said, “The genocide isn’t against Christians, but Nigerians in general.”
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