By Chibuike Nwabuko
ABUJA (PRECISE POST) – Rights Activist and Senator that represented Kaduna Central at the 8th National Assembly, Shehu Sani has condemned the United State’s decision to place Nigeria on a so-called “Country of Particular Concern” list for alleged religious persecution, saying the move is “founded on outright falsehoods and wholesale misinformation.”
Sani, who stated this when he took to his X handle on Saturday in reaction to Trump’s remarks, insisted that Nigeria’s security challenges — kidnappings, killings and banditry, cut across religious lines.
He highlighted that “Terrorists and bandits in Nigeria kill and kidnap their victims irrespective of their religious beliefs. The records are self-evident in the last 15 years.”
He added that given Nigeria’s roughly even Muslim/Christian ratio, “it’s technically impossible for one faith to persecute another” and said the country is akin to “a Lion and Tiger situation and not a Lion and a Zebra configuration.”
Turning his fire on the U.S. decision-makers, Sani claimed they “were misinformed by anarchists and lackeys and apprentices of neocolonialism who aimed to benefit from their seeds of division, divisiveness and discontent.”
He vowed that “this particular weapon raised against this country (Nigeria) shall never prosper.” He concluded by acknowledging that Nigeria, like any nation battling terrorism, “needs support and assistance to tackle its security challenges.
Precise Post recalls that on Friday, October 31 , 2025, the former U.S. President declared that Christianity is facing an “existential threat” in Nigeria and announced that the United States would designate Nigeria a “Country of Particular Concern.”
He wrote:
“Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria. Thousands of Christians are being killed. Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter.”
The move opens the door for possible U.S. sanctions or restrictions on aid.
This confrontation highlights mounting tensions between Nigeria’s government and segments of the U.S. foreign-policy establishment over how to interpret and respond to violence and religious freedom in the country.
