10/11/2025
PRESS STATEMENT
BY THE COALITION OF NORTHERN GROUPS (CNG)
AT THE NATIONAL SECRETARIAT, ABUJA.
9th November 2025
RESPONSE TO DONALD TRUMP’S RECKLESS
THREATS AGAINST NIGERIA
The Brutal Reality on the Ground
To underscore the tragic reality deliberately ignored by foreign propagandists:
On 11 January 2025, bandits killed 21 people in Baure, Katsina State.
On 19 August 2025, gunmen stormed a mosque in Malumfashi during dawn prayers and slaughtered over 50 worshippers.
In Zamfara State, between March and October 2025, dozens were killed in repeated attacks across Anka, Maru, and Tsafe Local Governments.
Yet none of these atrocities made international headlines because the victims were Muslims, not Christians. These are not isolated incidents they represent the daily horror faced by ordinary Muslims in rural communities, whose deaths rarely make international headlines.
No discussion of selective outrage is complete without recalling the Zaria massacre of December 12–14, 2015, when over 340 members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) mostly Shiite Muslims, including women and children were killed. even after Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch documented the atrocity with satellite imagery and mass grave evidence, no U.S. administration, including Trump’s, ever condemned the killings because the victims were Muslims. This silence further exposes the double standards of Western governments and their selective morality in Nigerian affairs.
The IPOB Factor: A False Victimhood
While foreign actors romanticize the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as victims, they conveniently ignore IPOB’s atrocities the murder of Northern traders, burning of vehicles, and violent enforcement of sit-at-home orders that have crippled livelihoods in the South-East. Over 600 Northerners have been killed in IPOB-related attacks since 2021, according to independent security monitors. Yet, Trump and his enablers choose silence because it doesn’t fit their pre-packaged narrative.
Foreign Manipulation and Hidden Motives
The claim of a “Christian genocide” is not a misunderstanding it is a strategic deception. It serves geopolitical interests aimed at destabilizing Nigeria and justifying future interventions. For decades, the United States and its allies have used “human rights” as camouflage for resource control and political dominance from Iraq to Libya. They create a moral crisis, weaponised global outrage, and then move in under the guise of “liberation.” Nigeria will not be the next experiment. Trump’s sudden concern for “persecuted Christians” is a smokescreen. His record shows indifference to African lives. What truly offends him is Nigeria’s growing diplomatic independence our increasing ties with China, Russia, and the Global South, and our resistance to neo-colonial pressure.
Our Key Observations
Predominantly Muslim Victims: In states like Zamfara, Sokoto, Katsina, Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa, Muslims form the overwhelming majority of victims. The blood being spilled daily in the North is not the blood of “Christian genocide” it is the blood of poor, neglected, defenceless Muslims.
Communal and Economic Roots: Most violent conflicts in Northern Nigeria stem from land disputes, poverty, and resource competition, not religion. Turning every tragedy into a Christian persecution narrative insults the truth and hinders real solutions.
Government Negligence: Successive Nigerian governments have failed to tackle insecurity decisively. Weak leadership, corruption, and lack of empathy have turned vast regions into killing fields. The Nigerian people deserve more than excuses they deserve action.
Geopolitical Hypocrisy: Trump’s threats expose not compassion, but imperial arrogance the same arrogance that destroyed nations under the guise of “freedom.” Nigeria’s sovereignty is not up for negotiation.
Our Calls to Action
To the Federal Government: Take decisive, coordinated action to end insecurity in the North. Enough of the complacency. Nigeria must defend its citizens, its sovereignty, and its dignity.
To Amnesty International and Its Local Agents: Stop weaponizing human rights for political gain. The manipulation of Nigerian tragedy to fit Western agendas must end.
To Donald Trump: Keep your threats to yourself. Nigeria is a sovereign nation, not a client state. We welcome dialogue based on facts and mutual respect, not bombast and blackmail.
To the International Community: Rather than fueling false narratives of religious conflict, channel your attention toward fostering good governance and holding accountable those truly destabilizing Nigeria the corrupt politicians, compromised judges, reckless governors, ministers, parastatal heads, and civil servants who continually undermine our democracy.
To the Nigerian People: Unity is our greatest defence. Muslims and Christians alike must reject foreign manipulation. Our fight is not against each other it is against insecurity, poverty, and bad governance.
Conclusion
If Nigeria fails to assert control over its narrative and territory, we risk sliding into chaos that will engulf not only our nation but the entire Sahel region. The international community must choose to support Nigeria’s stability, or to inflame its fragility.
The Coalition of Northern Groups will continue to stand for truth, justice, and national sovereignty. We will not remain silent while foreign powers insult our dignity, distort our reality, and play politics with our blood.
May Almighty God console the families of all victims Muslim and Christian alike and grant our leaders the wisdom to steer this nation away from destruction and towards justice and peace.
Thank you.
Comrade Jamilu Aliyu Charanchi
National Coordinator,
Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG)