Tinubu Aiding Christian Genocide, U.S. Civic Leader Alleges, Demands ICC Indictment
Mike Arnold, former U.S. mayor and human rights advocate, presents decade-long evidence of targeted attacks on Nigerian Christians, calling for urgent ICC intervention.
Abuja, Nigeria – October 30, 2025
The Nigerian government has once again come under international fire as a prominent American civic leader, Mike Arnold, accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of committing genocide, not merely in moral terms, but as defined under international law.
His statement has intensified global scrutiny over Nigeria’s deepening humanitarian crisis, particularly over 150,000 Christians that has been killed and over 4 million internally displaced persons (IDPs), driven from their ancestral homes by years of religiously targeted violence.
Arnold’s condemnation, shared in a viral social media post on Tuesday, directly indicts the president of Nigeria for crimes that, he said, meet every legal threshold for genocide.
Arnold’s statement underscores the systematic persecution of Christians in especially northern and central Nigeria, where attacks by Fulani terrorists have forced entire Christian villages to flee.
Families have been uprooted, their communities erased, and their farmlands seized, while government intervention remains minimal or, at times, complicit.
In his broader assessment, Arnold dismissed the government’s reliance on disputed casualty figures, saying the ongoing tragedy cannot be trivialized by statistics.
“This is irregardless of statistics or complicity in the ongoing killings in the north,” he stated, arguing that the government’s refusal to protect vulnerable populations, or even acknowledge their suffering, constitutes deliberate extermination of Christians.
The U.S. civic leader’s remarks build on his earlier presentation delivered on October 14, titled “Statement on Widespread Violence and Displacement in Nigeria.”
In that document, Arnold outlined what he called a “decade-long campaign of annihilation” targeting Christian communities across Nigeria’s North and Middle Belt.
He described how coordinated assaults, mass killings, and village burnings have devastated Christian populations, leading to what he termed “a Displaced Generation” millions now languishing in forgotten IDP camps without shelter, education, or food.
According to Arnold, this sustained pattern of killings, coupled with the Nigerian government’s inaction and denial, fits the legal definition of genocide under the 1948 Genocide Convention.
International human rights observers have long echoed similar concerns. Reports from multiple NGOs indicate that most victims of the ongoing massacres are Christians, targeted for their faith in what has increasingly resembled an organized effort to cleanse entire regions of Christian presence.
Despite repeated appeals, the Nigerian government has not only failed to prosecute the perpetrators of these atrocities but has, instead, absorbed these terrorists into the military and other security services under the guise of “repentant Boko Haram.”
This controversial policy has further compromised national security, contributing to the frequent overrunning of military barracks and the repeated ambush of soldiers by Fulani terrorists.
Equally troubling is the government’s neglect of survivors, who have been left to languish in appalling, dehumanizing conditions. In some instances, government airstrikes have even targeted camps housing Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), compounding the suffering of a population already devastated by violence and displacement.
Arnold’s intervention raises the stakes, calling for an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into what he calls “the systemic erasure of Nigeria’s Christian population.” His message resonates with growing demands across global Christian and human rights communities for urgent international accountability.
As the humanitarian crisis deepens, the world is being forced to confront an uncomfortable question, whether Nigeria’s silent fields, razed churches, and forgotten IDP camps are not enough evidence of a slow, ongoing genocide against its Christian citizens.
