Former aviation minister Femi Fani-Kayode has vowed that Nigerians will resist any U.S. military attack, after former U.S. President Donald Trump warned of possible military action over alleged killings of Christians in Nigeria.
In a fiery post on X, Fani-Kayode blasted Trump as a “deranged tyrant,” accusing him of threatening Nigeria with “violence, military action and invasion.”
“If he carries out his abominable threat, there will be a war,” Fani-Kayode wrote. “We shall not leave the country, we will fight it out with them.”
He said Nigeria would not tolerate being treated as a “vassal state” and accused some Nigerians of complacency in the face of foreign hostility.
Fani-Kayode also criticised Trump’s alliance with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he likened to a “21st-century Hitler,” accusing both men of hypocrisy for ignoring conflicts elsewhere while attempting to brand Nigeria with a genocide tag.
Trump, in a post on Truth Social, had warned that the U.S. could halt aid to Nigeria and “go in guns-blazing” if attacks on Christians continue, telling the Pentagon to be ready for “fast, vicious, and sweet” action.
Fani-Kayode dismissed the comments as intimidation, insisting that any attack would be fiercely resisted.
