PFN Urges Trump to Partner with Tinubu to End Targeted Killings in Nigeria

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has appealed to U.S. President Donald Trump to work with President Bola Tinubu to combat Nigeria’s worsening insecurity rather than threaten military intervention.

PFN President, Bishop Wale Oke, made the appeal during an interview on The Morning Brief, a Channels Television programme monitored by DAILY POST.

Oke called for collaborative efforts to end the incessant killings, especially those targeting Christians, stressing that every Nigerian life is valuable.

“If the President (Bola Tinubu) wants to ask for training in counter-terrorism, or wherever America has expertise, let them ask for it,” Oke said. “For us, we do not want an American invasion of Nigeria. We want Donald Trump to work with our President and to hold our President accountable to stop the targeted killing and kidnapping of our members. That is what we want.”

The cleric’s remarks follow Trump’s recent post on his Truth Social platform, where he threatened military action over what he described as “the mass slaughter of Christians” in Nigeria.

Trump had accused radical Islamist groups of being behind the killings, declaring Nigeria a “country of particular concern.”

“Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria. Thousands of Christians are being killed. Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter,” Trump wrote. “I am hereby making Nigeria a ‘country of particular concern.’ But that is the least of it. When Christians, or any such group, are slaughtered like is happening in Nigeria (3,100 versus 4,476 worldwide), something must be done!”

The PFN, which represents millions of Pentecostal Christians across the country, urged both leaders to adopt a diplomatic and strategic approach that prioritizes the protection of lives and freedom of worship in Nigeria.