Posted by Samuel on Sat 01st Nov, 2025 - tori.ng
Onanuga made the remark on Saturday, while reacting to a post on X by the United States, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the alleged genocide against Christians in Nigeria.
President Bola Tinubu’s media aide, Bayo Onanuga, has emphasized that the lives of Muslims in Nigeria also matter.
Onanuga made the remark on Saturday, while reacting to a post on X by the United States, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the alleged genocide against Christians in Nigeria.
Rubio had while reacting to the decision of President Donald Trump’s administration to designate Nigeria a Country of Particular Concerns, said the “ongoing slaughter of thousands of Christians in Nigeria by radical Islamists and Fulani ethnic militias is both tragic and unacceptable.
“As @POTUS said, the United States stands ready, willing, and able to act”.
However, Onanuga, who has consistently debunked the claim of persecution of Christians in Nigeria, said in the comment section, “Secretary Rubio, Muslim lives matter too”.
Onanuga further declared that there “is no ongoing slaughter of thousands of Christians in Nigeria”, stressing that the claim is a “gross exaggeration of the Nigerian situation”.
According to him, “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.
“What our country requires from America is military support to fight these violent extremists in some states of our country, not designation as a nation of particular concern”.