The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has said that President Bola Tinubu is not an extremist.
Speaking in an interview on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television monitored on Monday, Wike was responding to allegations of Christian genocide in Nigeria.
He stated that there was no basis for insinuations that President Tinubu’s administration was turning a blind eye to the killing of Christians in the country.
Recall that US President Donald Trump had declared Nigeria a ‘Country of Particular Concern‘ over allegations of Christian genocide.
Reacting, Wike said, “The Inspector General of Police is a Christian; the Director-General of State Security is a Christian. Today, the Chief of Defence is a Christian; the former Chief of Defence is a Christian. The Secretary to the Government is a Christian.
“Now tell me, how can any right-thinking person sit in government that will support the killing of our own people? That’s why I said it is politics taken too far.”
According to him, President Tinubu can’t condone or support any form of religious persecution.
“Not this president whose wife is a senior pastor , [that he] will shut his eyes and will not do anything, that a particular religion is being eliminated. Certainly not,” he added.