By Adesina Soyooye
The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has responded to a statement by Marco Rubio, United States of America’s Secretary of State, about alleged Christian genocide in Nigeria.
Onanuga’s reaction was made in a post on his official X handle on Saturday, November 1, 2025.
Rubio had shared on his official page that several Christians are being slaughtered and emphasised that the US government is ready and willing to act.
Rubio: “The ongoing slaughter of thousands of Christians in Nigeria by radical Islamists and Fulani ethnic militias is both tragic and unacceptable. As President Donald Trump said, the United State of America stands ready, willing and able to act”.
But Onanuga in a post on Saturday said Rubio’s statement is far from the truth, that Christians are not being slaughtered in Nigeria.
According to Onanuga, both Christians and Muslims are attacked in Nigeria. What Nigeria needs from America, he said, is military support to fight the violent extremists in the country.
Onanuga, in part: “Dear Secretary Rubio, there is no ongoing slaughter of thousands of Christians in Nigeria. This is a gross exaggeration of the Nigerian situation. What we do have are sporadic attacks on some villages by bandits and terrorists and the attacks are religiously insensitive. Christians, Muslims, churches and mosques are attacked randomly”.
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