Nigerian lawyer and former minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has condemned US President Donald Trump’s threat of military action against Nigeria.
Gatekeepers News reports that he described the move as an attempt to provoke division and warned Nigerians to stand united against external interference.
In a lengthy post on X, Fani-Kayode accused Trump of seeking to label our nation with the genocide tag and create a crisis in Nigeria,”l and suggested the threat forms part of a wider strategy to destabilise the country and seize its resources.
He opened his message with a blistering description of the former president, writing, “Imagine a deranged & sociopathic meglomaniac & tyrant, a recalcitrant and unrepentant schoolyard and dockside bully and a cheap and shameless godless scumbag like @realDonaldTrump threatening our country with violence, military action and invasion. What a nerve!”
Fani-Kayode said he had received messages from Nigerians who urged defiance rather than fear, and he quoted one correspondent at length. The correspondent told him: “They can categorise us as they like, that is on them and there is nothing we can do OR ought to do about that. He should bring it on. Let them send their troops and let us see.”
The former minister agreed with that sentiment and added his own, writing, “You are right. They are evil and, if he carries out his abominable threat, there will be a war. We shall not leave the country but we will fight it out with them.”
He accused Washington and its allies of hypocrisy, arguing that similar or worse violence elsewhere —including Gaza and Darfur has not prompted comparable threats, and said the policy aim behind the latest rhetoric was geopolitical gain rather than humanitarian concern.
Fani-Kayode warned that outside military intervention would not distinguish between religious groups on the ground and could instead unleash widespread suffering.
He wrote that foreign strikes “do not make any distinction between Christians & Muslims or ethnic groups. Once they deploy, begin the carnage & the bombs begin to fly we shall ALL die.”
The politician urged Nigerians to unite, close our ranks, bury our differences & jointly resist the bullies with contempt, defiance, faith & courage, and warned against celebrating any external pressure that could escalate into military action.
He concluded with religiously framed defiance, saying, “To hell with the Yankee Nazis. We do not fear them and we will never bow before them,” and later: “Drop one bomb on our people, whether Christian or Muslim, and the fire of God will burn you…”
The post came after Trump wrote on Truth Social that he had asked the Pentagon to prepare plans for possible action in Nigeria and threatened to halt US aid unless Abuja acted to stop the alleged attacks on Christians.
