Tuggar Debates Genocide Claims With Ex-Canadian Politician on TV
A heated exchange occurred on Piers Morgan’s show as Nigeria’s foreign affairs minister, Yusuf Tuggar, debated with former Canadian lawmaker Goldie Ghamari over claims of mass persecution of Christians in Nigeria. Tuggar rejected figures that claimed over 50,000 Christians have died since 2009, saying official data does not classify victims by religion and all lives are valued equally. He reported that in the past five years, 177 Christians had been killed and 102 churches attacked, countering higher numbers from international groups. Ghamari called Nigeria’s crisis a jihad and suggested links between the Nigerian government and the Islamic Republic of Iran. She criticized the Muslim identities of Nigeria’s president and vice president as problematic, but Tuggar dismissed her remarks, highlighting that Nigeria’s priority is national unity, not faith. Tuggar spoke of his own family’s loss to Boko Haram attacks and stressed […]