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Public affairs commentator Mahdi Shehu has criticised the United States President Donald Trump over his recent comments about defending Christians in Nigeria, describing the statement as hypocritical.
In a post shared on X on Monday night, Shehu said Trump has failed to protect Christians in his own country, where gun violence claims hundreds of lives every week, yet he claims he wants to defend Christians in Nigeria from persecution.
“Trump is utterly incapable of saving 70 Christians killed daily right under his nose in the United States, yet claims he wants to defend Christians in Nigeria from persecution.
Quoting the Bible, Shehu wrote, “Physicians, heal thyself.”
According to him, documented data shows that 125 people in the US are killed through gun violence each day. 327 people are shot daily, 117 killed in the process with 210 surviving various degrees of gunshot injuries.
He also cited data from the Everytown Research Journal, noting that an average of 45,738 people are killed by gun violence in the U.S. every year, most of whom are Christians killed not by terrorists but by fellow citizens.
According to him, Trump has been misled into believing a one-sided narrative about Nigeria.
“Trump has been misled into a one sided narrative and believed the same to be the Gospel truth and wishes to spill the blood of both innocent and guilty Nigerians for the sake of accessing cheap and free mineral resources,”he said.
