The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has accused opposition parties of orchestrating Christian genocide claims in Nigeria.
Wike made the allegation on Monday during an interview on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television monitored by DAILY POST.
“In 2015, under Jonathan, people capitalised on these kinds of things to take over power. It’s very obvious that the opposition is fueling this Christian genocide in Nigeria.
“The problem we have today is that Mr President’s own nature of politics, you can see the collapse of the opposition. The point I’m making is that it will be difficult for everybody. The opposition today has seen that no party is prepared to challenge the President returning to power.
“What do we do? Should we allow him to just go in like that without challenges? We must do something, and one of the things to do is bring up such thing that will divide the country.
“It is an indictment that a government I am serving, [that] anybody will allege that that government is supporting genocide, killing of Christians, and I am still in that government,” he said.
