The diplomatic row between Nigeria and the United States of America has worsened after President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to take military action if nothing is done about the alleged Christian genocide in Africa’s most populous country.
President Trump, in a statement on his official Truth Social platform, placed the US Defence Department on alert to prepare for war.
Trump further threatened to stop all US-backed aid to Nigeria if President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration did not end the alleged massive killing of Christians.
“If the Nigerian government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing’, to completely wipe out the Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities.
“I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our cherished Christians,” he wrote in the now viral statement on the Truth Social platform.