Nigerian-American activist and writer, Omoyele Sowore on Sunday, November 2, reacted to the current designation of Nigeria as a Nation of Explicit Concern and the specter of a navy invasion by the US of America’s President, Donald Trump.
In a put up made on X, Sowore warned that historical past has proven that the US resolution to provoke navy motion over the alleged killing of Christians in some components of Northern Nigeria is harmful.
He mentioned that the US president’s declare of planning to guard Nigerian Christians from Islamic terrorists working within the Northern area of the nation shouldn’t be celebrated by anybody.
Itemizing nations which have suffered from US navy intervention, Sowore cautioned that US missions, moderately than offering the promised stability, have over time recorded an unpalatable historical past of leaving nations the place they delivered such ‘help’ unstable.
He mentioned, “The most recent threat by U.S. President Donald Trump @POTUS to launch navy motion in Nigeria, allegedly to guard Christians, could sound interesting to some. Nonetheless, historical past has proven this to be perilous.
“Whether or not you’re Christian, Muslim, animist, or non-religious, nobody ought to rejoice such rhetoric.
“The USA and its allies have a protracted file of navy interventions that depart nations extra unstable than earlier than. They did not safe peace in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, or Syria, and so they received’t convey salvation to Nigeria via bombs or boots on the bottom,” he wrote on X.
The writer and activist additional said that what Nigeria as a nation at present wants is a professional and accountable management that visibly goals to guard each citizen and never a “international saviour”.
In line with Sowore, such management when enshrined would uphold justice and finish the cycles of corruption and violence which have left the nation damaged.
Additional mentioning the US President in his put up, Sowore mentioned, “@realDonaldTrump doesn’t care about Nigerians not Christians, Muslims, or anybody else.
“Our deliverance won’t ever come from overseas; it should come from inside, via actual management (not the Tinubus of this world) and nationwide renewal,” he added.