By Charles Igbo
“In this part of the Country, we are 95% Christians, and around the SE are Christians. The people in the bushes killing people bear Christian names. They are Emmanuel, Peter, John.”
In response to President Donald Trump’s allegation of genocide against Christians in Nigeria, Anambra State Governor
Chukwuma Soludo, has thrown Christians in the South-east under the bus.
“In the South-east”, Governor Soludo told President Trump, “it is Christians killing Christians.”
The Governor spoke in Awka, Anambra State, Sunday, during a Special interview with Channels Television. He faces a reelection contest on November 8, 2025.
In answer to a question on the threat by President Donald Trump of the United States of America, to descend on Nigeria, and wipe out the terrorists killing Christians in what he has described as genocide, Soludo condemned Trump’s, threat to invade Nigeria and wipe out the perpetrators of the alleged genocide of Christians. And to prove how wrong Trump’s assessment of the situation is, he told the US President that in his(Soludo’s) own South-east, for example, the opposite is the case as “it is Christians killing Christians.”
Soludo to Trump:
“What are you coming to Nigeria to do? To beat the police man, the Government or take over policing?
“Nigerian government needs to respond with the facts in a deeper conversation.
“America has the right of opinion about other countries within international law.
“The role of the Nigerian government in protecting lives and properties, the record needs to be clear. I think it is a matter of conversation.
“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 do what it does in terms of its own response within the realm of its own international law.
“But there is a deeper conversation. Our introspection about what goes on in the country. In this part of the world, Eastern Nigeria, it is not religious.
“People are killing themselves, Christians killing Christians. 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.
“Certainly, if Nigeria requests any assistance for the military, technology and hardware to deal with insurgency, then it is within Nigeria’s call.”
Throwing the sad situation back to America, Soludo said: “In America, you have policemen killing some blacks. I remember the Black Lives Matter protest, and somebody will say maybe, Africa should go and invade America because blacks are being killed. I am not quite sure because that is the way I see it.
“I think there is a need for deeper conversation. It must end in conversation, and I am sure the Government of Nigeria will respond very robustly on behalf of Nigeria. Nigeria is such a big country, and the government is doing a whole lot to safeguard the country.”
“In this part of the country, (South-east), we are 95 per cent Christians, and around the South-east are Christians. The people in the bushes killing people bear Christian names; it is wider than the categorisation of Christians, Muslims. Nigeria will overcome and it will end in conversation.”
Prior to his threat of war against Nigeria, President Trump had, on Friday, October 1, designated Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern, CPC.
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has long pushed for Nigeria to be designated as a CPC. It made that explicit in its July 2025 report.
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