Wike, on Monday, featured on
Channels Television’s Politics Today programme amid the military threat by
Trump against Nigeria.

“Before I came in here, so many people were sending me
texts, saying, ‘Oh, don’t speak about Trump, this and that’ (laughs). I am
Nigerian, a full-blooded Nigerian,” the FCT Minister said.

Recall that Trump had earlier designated Nigeria as a
Country of Particular Concern.

The US President cited what he described as ongoing violence
against Christians and the failure of the government to protect religious
minorities.

However, the Nigerian government has strongly denied the
persecution of any religious groups in the country.

Reacting, Wike described the allegation as politics taken
too far. He said it would be an indictment on his person as a Christian that a
government he serves in could be accused of supporting genocide.