LAGOS: Nigeria’s president is hoping to meet with US counterpart Donald Trump, an aide told AFP on Sunday, after the US leader threatened to send the military into Africa’s most populous country over what he has described as a threat to Christians by jihadists.
In an explosive post, Trump said on social media on Saturday that he asked the Pentagon to map out a possible plan of attack in Nigeria, one day after warning that Christianity was “facing an existential threat” there.
Nigeria, which is almost evenly divided between a Muslim-majority north and a largely Christian south, is embroiled in numerous conflicts that experts say have killed both Christians and Muslims without distinction.