ABUJA – The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has described the United States Government’s decision to remove Nigeria from the list of countries without religious freedom as a vindication for President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
The group said in a statement signed by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke, that what the US Department of State did was to leverage on its vantage position to sift facts from fictional tales of state-sponsored persecution of Christians.
“We join millions of well-meaning Nigerians to commend US President Joe Biden’s administration for doing its due diligence on allegations in 2020 that made the previous Donald Trump administration add Nigeria to the list of countries believed to be willfully violating religious freedom.
“This is a landmark move in the face of the recent spate of lobbying by individuals and groups, with some form of bias against President Buhari, to further their needless opposition to the administration.
“We know that a number of them have made and continue to make all sorts of unverifiable claims which suggest that the President has been encouraging persecution of Christians.
“It got to a point where a supposedly well educated and informed Catholic Bishop Matthew Kukah recently misled the U.S Congress by giving the impression that the choice of the heads of the three arms of government was deliberately orchestrated to give Muslims an upper hand,” it said.
