Former Minister of Aviation Femi Fani-Kayode has admitted that Christians are being targeted and killed in Nigeria.
The former minister made the remark on Tuesday while reacting to the recent surge in killings and mass abductions by criminal elements.
FFK, a staunch supporter of President Bola Tinubu, described those denying the killing of Christians as “propagandists.”
He stated that the assertion that “Christians are not being killed in Nigeria and that we bury empty coffins” is a monstrous mendacity.
According to him, Christians in Nigeria “are targeted and killed in large numbers”, stressing that anyone denying the killing of Christians, playing it down or saying otherwise, “is a perfidious propagandist, a genocide enabler and a specious liar”.
The former Minister, however, explained that the security crisis in the country affects all religions, stating that Muslims are also targeted.
“What must be clearly understood, however, is that Muslims are ALSO targeted and killed by the same terrorists in equal numbers,” he said.
FFK declared that the Islamist terrorists are killing “us all, both Christian and Muslim”, stating that something needs to be done about the killings “quickly and expeditiously”.
Reacting to the recent abduction of 25 schoolgirls in Kebbi State and the gruesome murder of the school principal, he said the victims were not Christians but Muslims.
FFK also stated that the 64 people that were recently abducted in Tsafe, Zamfara State, and the three persons that were slaughtered “were not Christian but Muslim”.
“The Catholic Rev. Father and 12 girls that were abducted in Kagarko, Kaduna State on Saturday were not Muslim but Christian.
“The Army officers, including a Brigadier General, that were attacked and slaughtered in Borno State a few days ago were both Christians and Muslims.
“They only care about the spilling of innocent blood and abduction of our people,” FFK, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, added.
This is coming amid claims by lawmakers in the United States that Christians are being persecuted in Nigeria.
The claim, which has been dismissed by the Nigerian authorities, is currently being investigated by US officials.
