Prepare for invasion of Nigeria - Trump instructs US war Dept

The Untied States of America, USA, President, Donald Trump, has disclosed that he has directed America's war department to prepare for invasion of Nigeria.

Trump had on Friday named Nigeria a “country of particular concern” – a State Department designation for nations “engaged in severe violations of religious freedom.”

He said that Christians in Nigeria were facing an “existential threat,” and calked on American lawmakers to investigate the “mass slaughter”.

Reacting, President Bola Tinubu dismissed the description of Nigeria as a nation hostile to religious freedom, insisting that the country remains committed to protecting the rights of citizens of all faiths.

But Trump, on Saturday, threatened to send US forces into Nigeria with “guns-a-blazing” if Nigeria does not stem what he described as the killing of Christians by Islamists.

In an explosive post on his Truth Social platform, the Republican leader – who had campaigned unsuccessfully for the Nobel Peace Prize – said he asked the Pentagon to map out a possible plan of attack, one day after warning that Christianity was facing an existential threat in Nigeria.

“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” he said.

“I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians,” Trump said.

Nigeria is embroiled in numerous conflicts that experts say have killed both Christians and Muslims without distinction.

Trump on Friday posted, without evidence, that “thousands of Christians are being killed (and) Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter.”