Why Nigeria Should Engage US Diplomatically – Security Expert, Ojo
Following U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to deploy airstrikes and ground troops to combat terrorists in Nigeria, security expert Dr. Jackson Lekan Ojo has urged the Federal Government to open diplomatic dialogue with Washington to find a peaceful resolution.
The American President had tagged Nigeria a country of particular concern, CPC over allegation of genocide against Christians communities in the country.
Reacting to the face-off between Nigeria and the United States, Ojo declared that it will be appropriate to engage with the American government to correct the misinformation about alleged genocide against Christians in Nigeria.
He said: “I don’t want to believe that Christians are being targeted for attacks. If you go to Zamfara State they are all Muslims, if you go to Borno State almost 90 percent of the people are Muslims.
“The only place where they are dealing heavy blows on Christians are Plateau and Benue States. Nobody is considering that as a good development, but then I don’t want to believe that there is a specific or strategic war directed at Christians community in this country.
“But then, that could be information available at the table of Teddy Cruz and eventually got to table of the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump.”
The security expert added that issuing threat and counter threats would not resolve the row between the two nations.
“I think the necessary thing now is not counter threats. I think the necessary thing now is to go to America, engage the American government to let them know that this is not what is happening in the country.
“Some individuals are issuing counter threats that if they (Americans) come we are going to withstand them. Withstand who?
“We need peace in this country. Anybody can send wrong information concerning anybody – your own is to convince people that those information are wrong.
“That is what I think we should do now as a country and not to prepare to fight America. No. Can we fight against America?, he said.