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Pastor Femi, Obama not Trump frustrated Nigeria’s war on terror. In this video, you’ll also see a preview of the work of the current INEC Chairman and others detailing the genocide in the Middle Belt by Fulani herders.
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Pastor Femi, Obama not Trump frustrated Nigeria’s war on terror.
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Pastor Femi, I listened to your message. You said the United States banned Nigeria from buying weapons and stopped the mercenaries that were helping us fight terrorism. You also said the U.S. now wants to come in because Nigeria is rising. Shocking!
This is the truth. During President Goodluck Jonathan’s time, the U.S. under Obama (not Trump) refused to sell weapons to Nigeria because of alleged human rights abuse. It was reported by BBC News on November 11, 2014. Those sanctions came after opposition politicians went to Washington shouting “genocide,” while Jonathan was struggling to stop Boko Haram from overrunning the North. That decision weakened our army and gave terrorists a second life.
Obama’s refusal blocked Nigeria from ending terrorism early. The chance to destroy them was lost. The same mistake gave birth to the insecurity that has expanded to Fulani militia we now live with every day.
Under Trump, the same America (you accused) reversed that failed policy. The U.S. gave Nigeria $590 million worth of arms and $1.8 million in direct security support between 2016 and 2020. These figures are not rumors. They are official records from the U.S. Department of State. Trump corrected what Obama destroyed.
It is unfortunate that you and ISWAP now sound alike in opposing America’s intervention under Trump. The same help that could have stopped more bloodshed is the one you condemned. That is why I must ask, whose side are you on? The victims or the comfort of the city?
Pastor, the truth must be spoken. You cannot use the pulpit to generalize and hide facts. Speak clearly and let those who trust make decision.
And please, do one thing. Hold a crusade in the Middle Belt. Go to Benue, Plateau, or Southern Kaduna where Christians have been killed, displaced, and buried in mass graves. Preach there, not only in the cities where there is comfort and applause.
Do not tell me some are pastors and some are evangelists. The gospel is not about safety or title. Peter went. Paul went. Others went. You can go too.
Maybe then you will understand that no political interest, no foreign policy, and no national image is greater than human life.
Why Prof. Joash Amupitan (The Current INEC Chairman) Believed It Was Genocide (2020 Report) - ***In His Words***
1. It fits the UN definition of genocide.
“The systematic and targeted killings, rape, abductions, and destruction of Christian communities fit squarely into this definition.”
2. The killings show clear intent to destroy a group.
“The recurrent targeting of Christian populations in the Middle Belt and Northern Nigeria reveals an intent to destroy that group in whole or in part.”
3. The Nigerian government failed in its duty to protect life.
“Under Article I of the Genocide Convention, State Parties have the obligation to prevent and punish genocide. The Nigerian government has failed in this duty.”
4. Government silence and inaction amount to complicity.
“Failure to investigate, arrest, and prosecute perpetrators, despite overwhelming evidence, constitutes complicity under Article III(e).”
5. Calling mass killings ‘clashes’ hides the truth.
“The continued reference to these massacres as ‘farmer-herder clashes’ or ‘communal conflicts’ is misleading and deliberately conceals the genocidal character of the attacks.”
6. The world must act under the Responsibility to Protect (R2P).
“The international community cannot remain indifferent. The doctrine of Responsibility to Protect mandates collective action when a State fails to safeguard its population.”
7. Nigeria is breaking its own international promises.
“As a signatory to the Rome Statute and the Genocide Convention, ignoring these atrocities amounts to treaty violation.”
8. Land occupation and displacement are forms of ethnic cleansing.
“The systematic displacement of indigenous communities and their replacement with settlers of a different faith or ethnicity is a slow genocide by attrition.”
9. The International Criminal Court should step in.
“The ICC should open investigations into both the perpetrators and complicit state actors for genocide and crimes against humanity.”
10. Silence and delay make the world guilty too.
“The failure of the global community to act promptly in Rwanda and Darfur should not be repeated in Nigeria. Delay is complicity. Silence in the face of genocide is itself a crime.”
This morning, while going through the headlines on Sahara Reporters, I saw a story that stopped me cold. The headline said: “Exclusive: Tinubu’s Newly Appointed INEC Chairman, Prof. Amupitan, Wrote Legal Brief in 2020 Declaring Genocide in Nigeria.” saharareporters.com/2025/11/…
I paused. I had to know if it was true or just another online twist.
The story said the new INEC chairman once wrote a legal paper declaring that the killings in Nigeria’s Middle Belt were genocide. I couldn’t ignore that. I searched for the document myself to be sure. And then I found it. It's real, powerful, and heartbreaking.
The title hit me like thunder: “Nigeria: Silent Slaughter – Genocide in Nigeria and the Implications for the International Community.” You can find it here if you want to see for yourself: researchgate.net/publication…
I opened it and began to read. What I saw inside left me quiet for a long time. The document was not written by an activist or a politician. It was written by Prof. Joash Ojo Amupitan (SAN). A respected law professor, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, and today, the chairman of our Independent National Electoral Commission. Back then, in 2020, he held no public office or government position. He simply wrote as a citizen and as a lawyer who still believed that truth could fix a broken country.
In that paper, he used law, not emotion, to prove that what is happening in the Middle Belt fits the United Nations’ legal definition of genocide. He didn’t speculate; he documented. He quoted the UN Genocide Convention of 1948. He cited the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. He wrote like a man trying to wake a sleeping world.
He said the killings of Christians and minorities were not random. They were repeated, planned, and targeted. He said the government’s silence and failure to act made it complicit under international law. He wrote, “The recurrent targeting of Christian populations in the Middle Belt and Northern Nigeria reveals an intent to destroy that group in whole or in part. Failure to investigate, arrest, and prosecute perpetrators, despite overwhelming evidence, constitutes complicity under Article III(e) of the Genocide Convention.”
He called the “farmer-herder clash” label dishonest. He said it hides the truth and protects the guilty. “The continued reference to these massacres as ‘farmer-herder clashes’ is misleading and deliberately conceals the genocidal character of the attacks,” he warned.
And then he ended with a cry to the world: “The failure of the global community to act promptly in Rwanda and Darfur should not be repeated in Nigeria. Delay is complicity.”
Those words were written five years ago. And today, his warning has come full circle.
The United States has now listed Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern for severe violations of religious freedom. That is not a small label. It is the same international category given to countries where persecution, torture, or genocide is taking place. But instead of reflection, the government reacted with anger.
Officials rushed to the media to say there is no Christian genocide in Nigeria. They said the U.S. used faulty data. They said the killings are only banditry and communal clashes. But that is exactly what the professor warned against five years ago. The same excuse. The same denial. The same blindness.
How can a nation that produced such a strong legal truth now spend its energy denying it? How can leaders who see the graves still insist there is no crime? This is the painful irony. The man who once proved the genocide now heads a national institution in a country whose government insists there is none. He has not denied his own work, but others are working hard to bury it.
When I read that 2020 report, I saw pain, courage, and hope. I saw a scholar who tried to tell the world, “Look at us before it becomes too late.” He may not have known that one day he would sit at the top of Nigeria’s electoral system, while the same issues he wrote about would still be bleeding. But truth has memory. Truth does not die. Documents do not forget. His words are still alive, still echoing.
This is not about the professor. This is about anyone now trying to bury the truth. Every time you deny what is happening in the Middle Belt, every time you call mass murder a “clash,” you are not defending government, you are defending evil. You are standing on the wrong side of history and standing in the way of justice. When you hide the truth, you help the killers. When you excuse bloodshed, you betray the dead. No office, no title, and no flag will wash away that stain.
Those who protect lies today will face the truth tomorrow. Power will pass. Position will fade. But your name will remain. Do not sell your name for silence. Do not trade truth for comfort. Because when the final book of history is written, it will not ask what position you held. It will ask what side you stood on.
If you still doubt what is happening, read the document yourself. It is there. It is public. It is backed by law and filled with evidence. Download it before it is deleted: researchgate.net/publication…. You will see that it was not written in anger but in truth.
Genocide denied is genocide repeated. And silence, especially official silence, is also a crime.
Dear @fkeyamo,
I read through your piece here: x.com/fkeyamo/status/1986067… to @realDonaldTrump. You said your appointment as a Christian minister proves there is no persecution. But when bandits and Fulani militias attack villages in Benue, Plateau, Nasarawa, or Southern Kaduna, do they stop to ask if the Minister of Aviation is a Christian? Do they check the president’s cabinet list before burning homes and killing farmers? The dead do not care who was appointed. Political appointments cannot replace justice for those who have been slaughtered.
Donald Trump did not accuse President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of killing Christians. There is nowhere in Trump’s statement where he made such a claim. He only said that Christians are being killed in Nigeria and called on the government to go after the killers. That is the same thing Nigerians have been crying about for years.
If Trump is saying the same thing that citizens, pastors, and victims have been shouting for years, why respond with a long political essay instead of a plan of action? Why not tell the world plainly that Nigeria has a problem and needs help to go after the killers (both Fulani militias and terrorist groups) killing people of all faiths? Why pretend that because the president’s wife is a pastor and his children are Christians, the country has no crisis? This is not a family issue. This is a national tragedy.
You wrote that President Tinubu is a moderate Muslim who prays with pastors. That is fine, but being a moderate does not make the killings disappear. Quoting the president’s family’s faith to defend state inaction is meaningless. Nigeria needs leadership, not family testimony.
This is not PDP versus APC. This is not about who supports or opposes the president. This is about human lives. It is about farmers murdered on their land, children burned in their homes, and families forced to flee to IDP camps.
Look at Benue, Plateau, Nasarawa, and Southern Kaduna. Every week brings a new attack. In Yelwata, Benue, over two hundred Christians were killed. Bokkos and Barkin Ladi have become mass graveyards. If there is no Christian genocide, what was Governor Ortom crying about in Benue? What did President Tinubu go to Benue for after the Yelwata massacre? If there are no killings, why are Christian communities living like refugees in their own country?
You completely denied the massacre of Christians. WOW! The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and Amnesty International both report that Christian farming communities in the Middle Belt face repeated and organized attacks. These are not random crimes but a clear pattern of targeted violence. A UK Parliament report recorded over 12,700 Christians killed and 7,900 abducted between 2019 and 2022. Recent reports by Reuters and The Guardian show that in 2025 alone, more than tens of Christians were massacred in Yelwata, Benue, while dozens were killed in Bokkos and Barkin Ladi. Human Rights Watch confirms that such killings are coordinated and often ignored. The evidence is overwhelming: Christians in Nigeria’s Middle Belt are being disproportionately targeted, and the violence is systematic, not equal.
The truth is that there has been no political will to stop them. Each time Nigerians cry out, government officials treat it as an attack on the government rather than a cry for help. Every report, every video, every outcry is dismissed as propaganda. That is why nothing changes. The killers move freely because those in power prefer silence to truth. When the world begins to notice, the government rushes to deny instead of act.
You, of all people, should remember that when the APC was in opposition, it ran to Washington to tell the Obama administration the same genocide in the North under Goodluck Jonathan. Even Bola Tinubu once tweeted about it. Back then, you called it genocide. So what changed? Did the killings stop because you came to power? Or is it only called genocide when another party is in charge?
If your goal was honesty, your letter to Trump would have been short and sincere. You could have simply said that there are terrorist attacks affecting both Christians and Muslims and that Nigeria needs help, intelligence, and technology to go after the killers. That would have shown leadership, not weakness. That would have shown truth, not propaganda.
Nobody said Tinubu is killing Christians. The point is that he must do more to stop those who are. Because if the killings continue and the government keeps denying them, history will not remember who was president. It will remember who stayed silent.
Nigeria does not need denial. Nigeria needs truth, accountability, and courage. Every time you deny the pain of your people, you give strength to those who kill them. And when that happens, the blood no longer cries only from the ground. It cries against those who refused to act.
This is not about politics, Mr. Keyamo. This is about truth. And no government can win peace by denying pain.
Dear President Trump @realDonaldTrump ,
I am a lawyer of more than three decades of active practice, most of which was dedicated to activism in promotion and protection of human rights. In 2017, right there in Washington, I was found worthy to be awarded the Global Human Rights Award by the United States Global Leadership Council, which had the eminent Dr. Reuben Egolf as its Chairman at the time. This was in recognition of my work over the years in the promotion of the rights of the downtrodden people. I was also born and raised as a Christian in Nigeria.
There is, therefore, a need for me to add my little voice to the issue that has agitated your mind lately (with the hope it would be heard, even as a whimper): the purported ‘mass killings’ of Christians in Nigeria.
I was appointed by the present President of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as his Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, along with other Christians. Because of my strong Christian background and ethical pedigree, it would have been most unconscionable for me to associate with - let alone accept to serve or continue to serve - a government if truly there is any scintilla of truth in the assertion that Christians are SPECIFICALLY targeted in Nigeria for persecution, killings or harassment ON ACCOUNT OF THEIR FAITH. It is simply not true.
Just like the U.S and many countries in the world, we have faced our own fair share of societal violence; ours has been perpetrated by deadly groups known as Boko Haram (now seriously decimated), herdsmen, and cattle rustlers. These decades-old problems were inherited by our President who has made great progress in the fight against these insurgents. In fact, most of the security Chiefs appointed by him are Christians, so it would be unthinkable to imagine them being complicit in the killing of fellow Christians in Nigeria.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Nigeria, though a Muslim, is a known ‘moderate’, whose wife is a Pastor of one of the biggest Pentecostal Churches in Nigeria and most of his children are practising Christians. When he was Governor of Lagos State, he regularly invited Christian Pastors for prayers and worship sessions at the Government House. He will be the last person to either adopt the killing of Christians as a State Policy, or condone such acts or be complicit in them.
Nigeria is a secular State and our Constitution explicitly provides for freedom of religion and prohibits the adoption of a State religion, reflecting its status as a multi-faith nation. This legal framework underpins the country's diverse religious landscape, which includes significant populations of Muslims, Christians, and adherents of traditional African religions, coexisting within a nation’s space.
In all honesty, the insecurity in some parts of the country over the years has impacted adherents of all religions and this government has not sought to protect one set of adherents and ignore the others.
Ordinarily, opposition politicians will oppose the government of the day. But on this matter, President Trump, you would have observed that leaders of the opposition parties in Nigeria are united on one point: there is no TARGETED killing of Christians in Nigeria.
President Trump, the Nigerian people ask for deep and sincere understanding from your government at this point; the Nigerian people ask for support and cooperation from your government at this point to confront this decades-old menace of terrorism; we ask for collaboration; we ask for frank and open dialogue at this time with your government; we ask that you broaden your sources of information at this time so as to get a balanced view of the happenings in Nigeria.
Thank you.
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria and
God bless the United States of America.
——- Festus Keyamo (Senior Advocate of Nigeria & Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators of the United Kingdom)
Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development,
Federal Republic of Nigeria
Trump said move fast the way you move fast to stop protest.
He said move fast the way you move fast to arrest those 16 soldiers which Sahara Reporters, Premium Times and Punch alleged they were coup plotters.
He said move fast the way you move fast to change the army chief.
Move fast so that the next person won’t be killed.
Move fast so the next village won’t be ransacked.
Move fast so the next reverend father could conduct mass in church in Benue, Taraba and Plateau State.
What is wrong in asking you to move fast?
Why complaining because someone is asking to move fast and if you cannot he would come help you do the job?
I have not seen anywhere Donald Trump said he is coming to fight Muslims or overthrow the Nigerian government. What he said was simple and clear: he spoke against terrorists.
In my view, anyone interpreting his statement otherwise is indirectly supporting the activities of the Fulani militias that have brought pain and destruction to many parts of the Middle Belt. Trump’s call was for Nigeria to move fast and act swiftly in stopping terrorists from wiping out the next village. That is how I understood his message.
Unless one condones what the Fulani militias did in Yelwata, Bokkos, or Taraba, where homes were burned and entire communities destroyed, there is no reason to twist his words.
How many of those responsible for the atrocities in Yelwata or Bokkos have been arrested, paraded, or prosecuted? The lack of accountability reflects a troubling level of unseriousness in handling these crimes.
Trump’s statement was clear: move fast, and if you don’t, the United States will step in. The word “if” is a conditional statement. It means the responsibility lies first with the Nigerian authorities to act.
So why the outrage? Why the anger toward someone calling out the government’s slow response to terrorism? Shouldn’t we all want our leaders to act decisively to stop the killings, whether the victims are Muslims or Christians?
If anyone supports these continued atrocities, they should say so openly. But let us not twist Trump’s words. He did not declare war on Muslims. He spoke against terrorists, the same individuals responsible for taking innocent lives across religious lines.
The message is simple: move fast, stop the killings, protect Nigerians, and restore the nation’s dignity.
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