Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) , Babachir Lawal, has claimed that before the current pressure from United States President, Donald Trump, Bola Tinubu, then a leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), led a delegation of party leaders ahead of the 2015 election to inform former President Barack Obama that Christians were being slaughtered in Nigeria.
Speaking as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, Lawal said Tinubu’s regime has no moral ground to blame Christians for seeking help elsewhere if it cannot provide security.
“The government should assure us that they can give us the peace, security, and prosperity that we desire,” Lawal said.“If they are unable to do that, they cannot blame any part of society that decides to seek help anywhere,” he added.
The opposition African Democratic Congress (ADC) chieftain said the issue of whether there is genocide or not should be secondary, as the government’s priority should be to guarantee the security of lives and property.
The former SGF also supported US President Donald Trump’s position that the killing of Christians in Nigeria qualifies as genocide.
“It’s a genocide; if it’s not a genocide, it is a pogrom,” Lawal stated.
He insisted that the claim that more Muslims than Christians were killed did not justify what is happening.
The former SGF said, “I have watched the argument going on about this issue of genocide; it is one-sided.
Obviously, those who are more vehemently opposing it are the Muslims whose brothers are the perpetrators of the genocide,” he said.
“They come with this very funny narrative that, ‘Oh, Muslims too are being killed, more Muslims are being killed than Christians.’
“That is their argument, but it does not justify what is happening. If 1,000 children are killed, and among them one is your own, your worry is about that one.
“In any case, why dodge the fact that those being accused of carrying out the genocide are Muslims, not Christians?”
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