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African Democratic Congress (ADC) chieftain and Ovation magazine publisher, Dele Momodu, has strongly dismissed claims that Nigeria’s opposition was behind former U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent remarks alleging that Christians are being targeted by armed groups in Nigeria.
Speaking on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief on Friday, November 7, Momodu described the allegation as baseless and an act of desperation.
“Look, my brother, anyone who sees opposition behind this has clearly run out of ideas,” Momodu said.
He questioned the logic of such accusations, asking:
“The opposition that is still trying to put its act together now has time to go to Washington?”
Momodu accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of habitually deflecting blame rather than addressing pressing national challenges.
He urged President Bola Tinubu’s administration to stop politicizing serious issues and instead focus on tackling the worsening insecurity across the country.
“If you know of a man called El-Buba in Jos, I’ve been to his church before. He has cried out that Christians are being targeted and wiped out,” Momodu noted.
“He never said Muslims aren’t being killed, but life has become so cheap that even when 100 people die, the president can still travel that night — no empathy, no sympathy. That’s what the opposition is talking about, and it has nothing to do with politics.”
Momodu’s remarks were a direct response to comments made earlier in the week by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, who accused the opposition of instigating Trump’s statement.
Appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today, Wike claimed that the opposition was “behind Trump’s move to brand the killings in Nigeria as a Christian genocide,” describing it as “politics taken too far.”
“It is very obvious, and I have said this,” Wike stated.
“The opposition today has seen that no party is prepared to challenge the President’s return to power. So, what do we do? We must do something — and one of the things is to bring up such a divisive narrative.”
