Chief Johnny Ucheaga, a legal practitioner with over 40 years of experience at the Bar and former National Administrative Secretary of the defunct National Centre Party of Nigeria (NCPN), told The Sun correspondent that many Nigerians viewed the threat of military action by the United States against Islamic terrorists and Boko Haram as an indictment of the APC-led Federal Government.
He said that it was very unfortunate that the ineptitude of the All Progressives Congress had brought global mockery on Nigeria. He expressed sadness that the government had allowed Islamic terrorists and Boko Haram to commit atrocities for 17 years without demonstrating a serious commitment or strategic effort to end their inhumane acts.
Ucheaga noted that United States President Donald Trump had been fully convinced by the October 15, 2025 report of the Fact-Finding Mission, which confirmed the reality of Christian genocide in Nigeria.
He recalled that the leader of the delegation, former US Ambassador Lewis Lucke, had stated that Nigeria in 2010 was a nation at peace, a beacon of rising prosperity and religious tolerance, often cited as the only country where radical Islam was being pushed back.
He pointed out that attacks were rare and sparked national outrage, with virtually no internally displaced persons (IDPs) and minimal conflicts, in stark contrast to the crisis that followed, which saw a 1,200 percent surge in IDPs by 2011 due to Boko Haram’s escalations. Ucheaga concluded that the situation had deteriorated because institutions in the country did not function properly.
Further talking, he said, “For instance, during the campaign of the New York City Mayor-elect, Zohran President Donald Trump campaigned openly against Zohran Mamdani, who is a Muslim, yet he won because the electoral institutions worked. The votes were counted, because power did not decide, but the people did.”
He said that such a situation could only improve in Nigeria if security agencies were neutral and not used as political tools, and if INEC became truly independent in practice, not just on paper. He added that citizens needed to defend their votes rather than merely cast them, so that leaders would emerge from the will of the people rather than the will of a godfather.
He noted that insurgency was politically motivated, which was why President Trump had threatened military action against Nigeria to flush out bandits, Boko Haram, and Islamic terrorists, whose murderous campaign had intensified from 2014 and worsened over time.
He described President Trump’s threat as a wake-up call for the Bola Tinubu-led administration to re-strategize and take decisive action against the insecurity plaguing the country.
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