You Are Waging A Media Campaign To Avoid Exposure – Ted Cruz Tells FG

Sunnex Egbu

4 hours ago

United States Senator, Ted Cruz, has claimed that the Federal Government is aware of policies fueling alleged Christian persecution in Nigeria.

He alleged that the government, however, has chosen media manipulation over accountability.

Speaking via a statement he shared on his X account on Friday, the American lawmaker stated that the Nigerian government has embarked on a PR campaign to fight the allegations levelled against them.

“Nigerian officials know their policies have created an environment in which Christians are being persecuted and slaughtered, including their enforcement of sharia law and their tolerance of Islamist violence.

“Instead of reversing these policies, they are waging a media campaign to escape exposure and accountability. I intend to prevent them from doing so,” Cruz said (via Fox News Digital).

This comes after Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, and British broadcaster Piers Morgan, on Thursday, traded words on social media over an unreleased interview.

Naijaonpoint reports that Tuggar had earlier demanded that the full and unedited version of his interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored be broadcast, warning that selective editing could distort Nigeria’s image and amplify “misleading narratives and allegations of religious persecution.”

In a post shared on his X handle on Wednesday, the minister stated that his explanations may not have conformed to certain preconceived notions, but he maintained that verifiable data supported them.

“I appeared on @piersmorgan’s flagship programme, @PiersUncensored, where I presented a factual and contextual perspective on the misleading narratives and allegations of religious persecution in Nigeria.”