Nigeria’s security issues, according to Anambra’s Governor Soludo, are more complicated than a war between Christians and Muslims.
Soludo claimed that President Donald Trump’s pledge to “protect Christians in Nigeria” oversimplifies the situation during a Sunday media talk.
He stated that although the US is free to express its views on international issues, any kind of involvement must respect both Nigeria’s sovereignty and international law.
He said, “As a country, America has its own rights to have its own views about what is going on elsewhere,”
“But when it comes to what it does, I am sure it must also act within the realm of international law.”
Governor Soludo governor stated that facts must be presented correctly and that the Nigerian government should have a “deeper conversation” to solve the issues brought up.
Soludo claims that internal problems rather than religious beliefs are the primary cause of most murders in the southeast.
“People are killing themselves — Christians killing Christians,” he said.
“The people in the bushes are Emmanuel, Peter, John — all Christian names — and they have maimed and killed thousands of our youths. It has nothing to do with religion.”
He stated that official requests for hardware, technology, or military support—rather than external threats—would be the best way for Nigeria to ask for help from other countries.
Governor Soludo rejected any discussion of invasion, claiming that if African countries threatened to attack the US due to racial conflict, the same reasoning would be ludicrous.
“You had policemen killing some blacks… I remember the #BlackLivesMatter protest, and somebody would say maybe Africa should go and invade America because blacks are being killed? I’m not quite sure,” he said.
“I think there is a need for deeper conversation,” he said.
“It must end in conversation, and I am sure the government of Nigeria will respond very robustly. Nigeria is such a big country, and the government is doing a whole lot to safeguard it.”
Governor Soludo who is running for reelection on Saturday, pointed out that the majority of people in the southeast are Christians and that the situation there shouldn’t be misrepresented.
“In this part of the country, we are 95 percent Christian,” he said.
“The people in the bushes killing others bear Christian names; it is wider than the categorisation of Christians and Muslims. Nigeria will overcome, and it will end in conversation.”
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