- Safiu Kehinde
Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, has joined other resenting voices to warn against President Donald Trump’s threat to take military action against Nigeria.
NPO earlier Reported that the United States President had on Saturday engaged the Pentagon and Department of War on possible military action against Nigeria over the alleged genocidal attacks on Christians in the country.
Trump, in a social media post on Saturday, said the United States would immediately cut off all assistance to the African country “if the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians”.
Reacting in a statement posted on his X handle on Sunday, Sowore warned against the threat by Trump, stressing that the US military intervention is nothing to celebrate.
The 2023 African Action Congress (AAC) Presidential candidate noted that previous US interventions in warring countries like Afghanistan, Iran, and Libya, had left the countries in a more unstable state.
He held that the US will not being salvation to Nigeria.
Rather, the activist asserted that Nigeria only a legitimate and accountable leadership, not a foreign saviour like Trump who he claimed not to care about anyone.
The statement read; “The latest threat by U.S. President Donald Trump @POTUS to launch military action in Nigeria, allegedly to protect Christians, may sound appealing to some. Still, history has shown this to be perilous.
“Whether you are Christian, Muslim, animist, or non-religious, no one should celebrate such rhetoric. The United States and its allies have a long record of military interventions that leave nations more unstable than before. They failed to secure peace in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, or Syria, and they won’t bring salvation to Nigeria through bombs or boots on the ground.
“What Nigeria truly needs is not a foreign savior, but legitimate, accountable leadership, one that protects all citizens, upholds justice, and ends the cycles of corruption and violence that have left the nation broken.
“@realDonaldTrump does not care about Nigerians not Christians, Muslims, or anyone else. Our deliverance will never come from abroad; it must come from within, through real leadership (not the Tinubus of this world) and national renewal.”