The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has disclosed that some unnamed persons pleaded with him not to speak about US President Donald Trump.
It was reported that Wike, on Monday, featured on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme amid the military threat by Trump against Nigeria.
“Before I came in here, so many people were sending me texts, saying, ‘Oh, don’t speak about Trump, this and that’ (laughs). I am Nigerian, a full-blooded Nigerian,” the FCT Minister said.
It was recalls that Trump had earlier designated Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern.
The US President cited what he described as ongoing violence against Christians and the failure of the government to protect religious minorities.
However, the Nigerian government has strongly denied the persecution of any religious groups in the country.
Reacting, Wike described the allegation as politics taken too far. He said it would be an indictment on his person as a Christian that a government he serves in could be accused of supporting genocide.
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