IPOB Leader Nnamdi Kanu Named “Major Victim of Trado-Judeo-Christian Self-Defense” in 2025 as Evidence Mounts Against Nigerian State Lawlessness
As Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Parolin was named the Most Disappointing Holy See Image Maker on Christian Religious Freedom in Nigeria in 2025, President Donald Trump, Rep. Riley Moore, Sen. Ted Cruz, and other Americans stood distinguished as Defenders of Nigerian Christians in 2025
Anambra, Nigeria – January 4, 2025
In what has emerged as a damning verdict on the state of law, justice, and constitutionalism in Nigeria, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has been officially designated “Major Victim of Trado-Judeo-Christian Self-Defense in Nigeria in 2025.”
The designation, made by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), sits at the heart of a broader body of collected evidence indicting Nigerian authorities for entrenched lawlessness, selective justice, and the violent repression of citizens who dared to stand up for themselves.
This declaration is symbolic, as Mazi Nnamdi Kanu represents the aspiration of Nigerians and state injustice against citizens who dare to defend themselves against the ongoing Christian genocide.
It is a forensic conclusion drawn from years of documented abuses, systemic constitutional breaches, and the deliberate elevation of brute force over the rule of law by successive Nigerian governments since June 2015.
A State That Criminalizes Self-Defense, Rewards Impunity
At the centre of this unfolding narrative is Nnamdi Kanu, whose extraordinary rendition, prolonged detention, and continued persecution in defiance of multiple court orders have become the clearest illustration of Nigeria’s descent into executive lawlessness.
In Kanu’s case, the Nigerian state did not merely bend the law; it pulverized it.
While highly armed Fulani terrorists and other non-state actors such as ISIS, Lakurawa, etc. roam freely, occupying forests, overrunning rural communities, and enforcing “convert or die” terror campaigns, the full weight of state power has been reserved for unarmed agitators, journalists, and citizens demanding self-determination and safety. This grotesque inversion of justice has effectively criminalized self-defense while normalizing terror.
Kanu’s designation as a major victim is therefore an indictment of a state that punishes resistance to extermination while tacitly enabling its architects.
While Americans featured prominently on the list for their roles in protecting religious freedom in Nigeria, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi who is protected by the Nigerian government emerged controversially with two designations. A recognition that starkly defines the troubling face of terrorism, complicity, and uncomfortable truth-telling in Nigeria’s 2025 Religious Freedom Crisis.
Systematic Anti-Christian Violence and Constitutional Collapse
Intersociety’s findings reveal that the mass killing of Christians and destruction of churches across Nigeria, particularly in the Middle Belt, North-East, Southern Kaduna, and parts of the South-East, are neither random nor spontaneous.
“They are systematic, coordinated, and well known to Nigeria’s political and security leadership since 2015.”
These atrocities, according to the report, have unfolded across three dimensions of violence:
Structural violence, through policies such as RUGA, grazing reserves, and pastoral settlements imposed on indigenous Christian communities.
Cultural violence, which normalizes terror by framing victims as expendable or politically inconvenient.
Physical violence, executed by jihadist Fulani herdsmen and bandits who account for over 70 percent of recorded “convert to Islam or die” attacks in 2025.
Far from ignorance, Nigerian leaders are accused of aiding, abetting, and in some cases directly participating in these campaigns against Christians, thereby breaching the 1999 Constitution and eroding Nigeria’s secular foundation.
Forests, Leaks, and Coordinated Terror
One of the most chilling revelations concerns Nigeria’s forest mapping exercise allegedly conducted by the military in late 2015.
The documented identification of 11,129 forests nationwide, later referenced by government ministries, raises an unavoidable question: Who leaked this intelligence to jihadist groups now entrenched in those same forests?
The timeline is damning. The expansion of terrorist incursions into southern and Middle Belt forests coincided eerily with controversial military operations such as Operation Python Dance and Operation Whirl Wind.
Rather than dismantling terror networks, these operations disproportionately targeted dissenting Christian regions while leaving jihadist infrastructure untouched.
International Intervention and the Trump Factor
In a striking contrast to Nigeria’s internal paralysis, international pressure proved decisive. Intersociety credits President Donald Trump and the U.S. government with preventing what it describes as the imminent obliteration of Nigerian Christians.
Through sustained diplomatic pressure and religious freedom advocacy, no fewer than 600 Christian lives and dozens of churches were reportedly saved in 2025 alone, particularly during the Christmas and New Year period.
President Trump was accordingly designated Most Distinguished Defender of Nigerian Christians in 2025, alongside the governments of the United States and Canada as the most Christian-friendly and protective nations with respect to Nigeria.
Heroes, Enablers, and the Moral Divide
The report draws a sharp moral line between those who resisted lawlessness and those who dignified it with silence, propaganda, or collaboration.
Among those commended were: Reps. Riley Moore and Senator Ted Cruz, for legislative advocacy.
Catholic Bishops Anagbe and Onoga, Pastor Dachomo Ezekiel, and CAN leader Bishop Okoh, for fearless public defense of Christian communities.
Sahara Reporters, named the most fearless and uncompromised Nigerian media platform.
Nnamdi Kanu, whose persecution symbolizes the price of defiance in a lawless state.
Conversely, a roll call of shame was issued against institutions and individuals who, by action or omission, have enabled terror: Compromised Christian leaders and political office holders.
The BBC African Section, accused of integrity failures.
Elements within the Nigerian political class that, while cloaked in Christianity, allegedly amplified state jihadism through fear and opportunism.
Lawlessness as State Policy
What emerges from this report is not merely a catalogue of abuses but a portrait of a country where lawlessness has been institutionalized and morality inverted.
Christians who defend themselves against Jihadists are branded enemies; those who terrorize communities are courted, protected, or explained away. In such a landscape, the glorification of terrorism is not accidental; it is policy.
Nnamdi Kanu’s ordeal stands as both warning and witness. It warns of the cost of resistance in a captured state, and it bears witness to a truth Nigeria’s rulers would rather bury: that a people denied protection will eventually demand justice, by law or by history.
InterSociety’s list of “Distinguished Persons On Religious Freedom In Nigeria In 2025” include the following:
President Trump: Most Distinguished Defender Of Nigerian Christians In 2025
US and Canada: Most Christian Religion Friendly And Defending Countries In 2025
Rep Riley and Sen Teddy Cruz: Distinguished Defenders Of Nigerian Christians In 2025
Cath Bishops Anagbe and Onoga, Pastor Dachomo and CAN Leader, Bishop Okoh: Most Outspoken, Fearless And Uncompromised Defenders Of Nigerian Christians In 2025
Sheikh Ahmad Gumi: Most Distinguished Bitter Truth Teller On Anti-Christian Violent Campaigns In Nigeria In 2025
Nnamdi Kanu: Major Victim Of Trado-Judeo-Christian Self-Defense In Nigeria In 2025
Sahara Reporters: Most Fearless And Uncompromised Media In Nigeria In 2025
Truth-Nigeria and Juud Saul: Most Domestically Outstanding Cracking Investigators On Killing Of Christians In Nigeria’s Plateau, Benue, Taraba And Southern Kaduna In 2025
Mike Arnold: Most Resistant And Resilient Int’l Christian Protection Campaigner For Nigerian Christians In 2025
Lawyer Emmanuel Ogebe: Intersociety’s Friend Of The Year (2025) On Defense Of Middle-Belt And North-East Christians Most Disappointing Persons And Bodies On Defence Of Christians
Bishop Kukah, Catholic Bishops’ Conference, PFN and Anglican Communion in Nigeria: Most Disappointing Christian Leaders And Bodies In 2025
Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Parolin: Most Disappointing Holy See’s Image Maker On Christian Religious Freedom In Nigeria In 2025 ·
Sheikh Ahmad Gumi: Most Defender Of Radical Islamism In Gross Breach Of Constitutional And Religious Secularism In Nigeria In 2025
Nigerian Christian Governors and Lawmakers and Political Opposition Christian Leaders: Most Fearful And Pretentious Christians And Alleged State Jihadism Amplifiers In 2025
Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen and Jihadist Fulani Bandits: Most Widespread And Atrocious And Government Friendly Islamic Terror Groups In Nigeria-Accounting For More Than 70% Of Egregious Attacks “In Convert To Islam Or Die” Campaigns Against Christians And Their Sacred Places Of Worship In 2025
BBC’s African Section Global Disinformation Unit: Most Integrity-Challenged International Media On Religious Freedom In Nigeria In 2025
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