Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has urged the Trump administration in the US to realise that lives of Muslims also matter.
He noted this as he described the Christian genocide claim by President Donald Trump as “gross exaggeration.”
According to Onanuga, Muslims are also falling victim to terrorism.
Responding to a post by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who alleged that Fulani militias and radical Islamists were slaughtering Christians in Nigeria, Onanuga insisted that insecurity in the country was not religiously motivated.
“Dear Secretary Rubio, there is no ongoing slaughter of thousands of Christians in Nigeria. What we do have are sporadic attacks on villages by bandits and terrorists, and these attacks are religiously insensitive. Christians, Muslims, churches, and mosques are attacked randomly,” he wrote.
Onanuga added, “What our country needs from America is military support to fight violent extremists in some states, not a designation as a ‘Country of Particular Concern.’”
In another post, he stated pointedly, “Secretary Rubio, Muslim lives matter too.”
