The African Democratic Congress, ADC, said the recent allegation by President Donald Trump of the United States of genocide against Christians in Nigeria is due to the failure of the government to protect its citizens.
The Party’s National spokesman, Bolaji Abdullahi, said this on Tuesday when he featured in an interview on ‘Politics Today’, a programme on Channels Television monitored by DAILY POST.
Abdullahi called on the the Federal Government to be alive to its primary responsibility of securing lives and properties of Nigerians.
He alleged that the current administration was living in denial, recalling how the government once tried to dismiss claims of a Christian genocide.
The former Minister of Sports also challenged the government to admit its failings over the past two years and assure Nigerians and the international community of its commitment in tackling the issue.
“If we prove incapable of understanding the enormity of the crises that we face as a country and other people use that opportunity to kick us around, we should look for balm and rub it and face what matters.
“This situation that we face requires one thing – humility from the government – to acknowledge that whatever we have done in the last two years appears not to be working and for the Nigerian government to bend down and do the real work of protecting Nigerians.
“When you prove capable of protecting you own people, whether they are Christians or Muslims, nobody is going to come out and say, ‘if you can’t fix your problem, we will fix it for you,” he said.