Africa-Press – Nigeria. A Kano State chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Jaffar Bello, has slammed Nigeria’s First Lady, Remi Tinubu for calling for US air strikes on Northern Nigeria.
Speaking in an interview on Trust TV on Friday, Bello said the President’s wife did not call for strikes in the Southeast, where according to him, there is secession agitation.
He was speaking on the US listing of the new bill initiated by the US Congress aimed at increasing accountability for human rights abuses in Nigeria.
The Bill, Nigeria Religious Freedom and Accountability Act of 2026, contains provision for potential sanctions against Fulani militias and former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso.
Bello said, “Recently the wife of the President, the First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was in America and she was calling for more American strikes in the northern.
“She specifically stated the northern part of the country. She didn’t call for strikes in the Southeastern part of the country that are suffering from the IPOB and sit-at-home and issues of separation and killings that are going on.
“Wherever America in the past 20 years has conducted war, it’s in Islamic countries from Somalia to Yemen to Iraq to recently in Iran.”
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