Former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has described as a “lie” President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement that 90 percent of victims of insurgency in Nigeria are Muslims.
Buhari stated this in an opinion article published in a Christian news outlet, Christianity Today.
According to the president, the 2014 kidnap of 276 Chibok girls, shooting inside mosques and murder of two prominent imams among others prove that Muslims are the worst-hit by the insurgents.
Buhari, who lamented the killing of Rev. Lawan Andimi, CAN Chairman in Michika LGA in Adamawa State by insurgents, appealed to Nigerians, especially religious leaders, not to allow terrorists escalate religious disharmony in the country.
“We may not, yet, be completely winning the battle for the truth. Christianity in Nigeria is not—as some seem intent on believing—contracting under pressure, but expanding and growing in numbers approaching half of our population today.
“Nor is it the case that Boko Haram primarily targeting Christians: not all of the Chibok schoolgirls were Christians; some were Muslims, and were so at the point at which they were taken by the terrorists.
“Indeed, it is the reality that some 90 per cent of all Boko Haram victims have been Muslims: they include a copycat abduction of over 100 Muslim schoolgirls, along with their single Christian classmate; shootings inside mosques; and the murder of two prominent imams.
“Perhaps, it makes for a better story should these truths, and more, be ignored in the telling. It is a simple fact that these now-failing terrorists have targeted the vulnerable, the religious, the non-religious, the young, and the old without discrimination.
“And at this point, when they are fractured, we cannot allow them to divide good Christians and good Muslims from those things that bind us all in the sight of God: faith, family, forgiveness, fidelity and friendship to each other,” the president’s article read in part.
But taking to Twitter on Tuesday, the controversial Fani-Kayode disagreed with the president’s assertion that 90 percent of victims are Muslims.
See tweet:
"90% of Boko Haram victims are Muslim"- Buhari
This is a lie.The overwhelming majority of communities that BH targets are Christian.The same with the Fulani militias.The killing of Christians in Nigeria is a common blood sport which shall continue as long as Buhari is President
— Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK) February 4, 2020
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