A foremost rights group in the Niger Delta region, the Ijaw People’s Development Initiative (IPDI), has threatened to drag the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) to the International Community over ‘the continued indiscriminate killing of Christians and civilians by herdsmen, Miyetti Allah and Boko Haram militia groups.

The Ijaw group in a press statement signed by its National Coordinator, Comrade Ozobo Austin, lamented that Christians and Southerners in the country were no longer safe under Buhari’s administration which it described as an ‘authoritarian government’.

“We have discovered plans by the Northern Nigeria to intimidate the Southern Nigeria, mostly Christians with barbaric killings to abandon their Christian faith for Islam and eventually turn Nigeria to a Muslim state”, the group said expressing worries that “except, the international Community quickly intervenes, the Christian race will be wiped out in Nigeria.”

While warning the President to ensure a halt to the killings of Christians, the group enjoined Christians in the country to protect themselves against any attack by the killer groups.

The statement read in part:

“Nigeria Government has no interest to protect Christian faith. The Government backing to killer herdsmen, Boko Haram and Miyetti Allah is the reason for the continuous barbaric and indiscriminate killings in the country.

“Being the fact that Boko Haram, herdsmen, and Miyetti Allah are all from the same Islamic faith and it happened to be Fulani/Hausa elements from Northern Nigeria, there is no reason the Christians will not believe that there is Islamization agenda backed by President Muhammadu Buhari in the Country.

“The Nigeria security is sectional and have compromised, and now defends killer herdsmen in southern Nigeria instead of protecting the harmless citizens.

“The foreign criminal elements killing and invading communities under the guise of herdsmen in Southern Nigeria are not real herdsmen but are organized Northern militia groups specially sent to Southern Nigeria to execute the Islamization agenda in Southern Nigeria.

“What is happening to Nigeria Christians today is an organized conspiracy by the Muslims, Nigeria sectional and tribalistic government led by President Muhammadu Buhari.”