Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has written an open letter to U.S. President Donald Trump, dismissing claims of widespread killings of Christians in Nigeria.

In a detailed statement shared publicly, Keyamo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, described Trump’s concern about “mass killings” of Christians as “misinformed.” He said such assertions do not reflect the true state of Nigeria’s religious and social realities.

Keyamo Defends Tinubu’s Government

Keyamo explained that he had spent over three decades as a human rights lawyer and was honoured in Washington in 2017 with the Global Human Rights Award by the United States Global Leadership Council for his advocacy for the oppressed.

He stressed that if Christians were being deliberately targeted, he would never serve under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government.

He said Tinubu, though a Muslim, is “a known moderate,” whose wife is a pastor and whose children are practising Christians.