By Our Reporter
ABUJA (PRECISE POST) – Former Presidential candidate and activist, Omoyele Sowore has denounced the recent threat of possible military action if Christians continue to be killed by U.S. President Donald Trump, describing it as a reckless intervention that “may sound appealing to some, but history has shown it to be perilous.”
Precise Post recalls that Sowore’s remarks, released on his X handle on Sunday, come against the backdrop of Trump’s strong statement, in which he declared that “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…”
Sowore warns that whether one is Christian, Muslim, animist or non-religious, no one should celebrate such interventionist rhetoric. He argues:
The U.S. and its allies have a track record of military interventions that have left nations more unstable, citing examples such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria.
Nigeria does not need a foreign saviour. What the country needs is legitimate, accountable leadership that protects all citizens, ends corruption and violence, and upholds justice.
He accuses Trump of not caring about Nigerians as human beings (Christians, Muslims or otherwise), and insists that “our deliverance will never come from abroad; it must come from within, through real leadership (not the Tinubus of this world) and national renewal.”
Further recall that Nigeria has experienced longstanding security challenges involving Islamist extremist groups like Boko Haram and multiple communal conflicts, and the Nigerian government has rejected framing the violence purely in religious terms.
However, Sowore’s message highlights the risk of reducing Nigeria’s complex security and governance challenges to foreign-military responses framed in religious terms. The danger, he warns, is that such framing can deepen divisions, enable external coercion, undermine national sovereignty, and distract from the root problems — governance, accountability, inclusive protection and justice.
Also, the threat from Trump to potentially deploy U.S. military force in Nigeria escalates diplomatic stakes and frames the country’s troubles in stark, religious-flashpoint terms. Sowore’s response insists that such an approach is misguided and risky and that real change must come from Nigerian leadership, not foreign bombs.
