Nigeria’s president hopes to hold talks with his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump, an aide said Sunday, following Trump’s threat to deploy the U.S. military to Nigeria over alleged attacks on Christians.
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.
In his post, Trump said that if Nigeria does not stem the killings, the United States will attack and "it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians".
A senior aide to Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's, Daniel Bwala, told AFP that "we do not see the (post) in the literal sense."
