Former aviation minister Femi Fani-Kayode has warned Nigerians would resist any attempt by the United States to invade the country, following a post by U.S. President Donald Trump instructing the U.S. military to prepare for possible action over alleged attacks on Christians in Nigeria.
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In a post on X on Sunday, Fani-Kayode described Trump in scathing terms and accused the U.S. leader of threatening Nigeria with “violence, military action and invasion.”
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“Imagine a deranged & sociopathic meglomaniac & tyrant, a recalcitrant and unrepentant schoolyard and dockside bully and a cheap and shameless godless scumbag like @realDonaldTrump threatening our country with violence, military action and invasion. What a nerve!” he wrote.
Fani-Kayode said a friend had alerted him to Trump’s comments and argued that Nigeria must not accept being treated as subordinate by Western powers. He warned Nigerians would not flee the country if the U.S. carried out its threat but would “stand their ground and fight.”
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“My response to her was as follows. ‘You are right. They are evil and, if he carries out his abominable threat, there will be a war. We shall not leave the country but we will fight it out with them. We behaved like cowards and allowed them to demonise us with no response. I do not know what is wrong with Nigerians but this will be the greatest challenge they have ever faced and maybe after it is all over they will appreciate the importance of having bold, articulate and courageous leaders & disavow themselves of their accursed cowardice, ignorance, pettiness, weakness, envy & complacency.’”
He also accused Trump of aligning with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and of failing to condemn atrocities elsewhere while attempting to brand Nigeria with a “genocide” tag. “Trump, a fascist & an associate of the globally recognized Hitler of the 21st century, @netanyahu, has refused to call the Israeli Zionist Nazis and the UAE-backed RSF butchers of Darfur, Sudan mass murderers and genocidal maniacs but he is calling our people the ‘killers of Christians’ and is desperately trying to label our nation with the genocide tag and create a crisis in Nigeria,” Fani-Kayode wrote.
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Trump’s post on his social media platform said the U.S. would “immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria” if attacks on Christians continued and that America “may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities.” He added: “I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians! WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!”
