By Rismadarvoice, 10 November 2025
As reactions continue trailing the threat by the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump on possible military action against terrorists in Nigeria over alleged Christian genocide, a renown legal luminary, Barrister Amobi Nzelu has urged the President Bola Tinubu’s -led Nigerian government to constructively engage American government on this matter.
Barrister Nzelu who has been in private legal practice in Nigeria in the last 45 years, became very famous for defending 6 Nigerian youth popularly called “Apo 6”, who were brutally murdered by the Police in Abuja, and won, noted that in engaging with the US government, it is not the issue of coming to say it is a lie or it is correct.
He said: “When you see an uprising lasting for more than three days, seven days, people have been feeding from that uprising. Nigerian government should constructively engage American government on this matter.
“America don’t say things in vain. They must have done their in-house investigation into this particular matter before they come out to say it at that level.
” For a president of America to say that there is genocide of the Christians, there are facts he may know we don’t know here, but there are certain facts that are concealed. And I’m sure that some of the killings are underreported.
“The proper thing for them to do rather than confront the American head on, is to go out and see how they can engage them diplomatically rather than confronting the American government.
“Donald Trump may have his facts and figures. Nigerians may think he doesn’t have them. No, he may have his facts and figures together on this particular issue.
“They should engage him and explain to him one thing or the other. I believe they should engage the American government constructively.
“Diplomacy is the ability to tell somebody to be stupid if they want to be stupid” he said, adding that the best way to put in this thing is “the president of America may not have been properly informed of what is going on in Nigeria rather than to call the man a liar. You know, these are war powers. There are things you don’t say out like that.
“For the man to say he is going to intervene in Nigerian military means that there are facts that are available to them, which we don’t know. It is left for Nigerian government to engage him and tell him that these facts are correct, these ones are incorrect, but not to start saying the man is a liar”.
He continued: “We cannot pretend that this thing that started in 2006 is still there with us. It’s a part of why they removed Goodluck. They got him out of the system. That was part of why Buhari came eight years, it became even worse. Tinubu came and still looking at these people that are doing this thing.
“The security report is telling us that most of them that they captured had foreign currencies on them. Who is funding them? The DSS is saying that most of them that are arrested, they have foreign currencies. Look, we should stop deceiving ourselves”.
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