In an open letter to US President Donald Trump, Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, claimed that the murder of Christians in Nigeria has moved to the Southeast and is now taking Igbo life.
In the letter that was made public on Thursday, Kanu said that the violent outburst that was characterized as Christian persecution had spread beyond the northern area.
He said that Igbo communities were also affected by the “mass killing of Christians.”
Kanu also informed Trump that he had escaped several assassination attempts, which he claimed were planned by the Nigerian government.
“In the name of the Judeo-Christian faith and values we both hold dear, I extend warm greetings to you,” Kanu declared. I had the privilege of attending your campaign rally in January 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa, as a practicing Jew who believes in the Judeo-Christian tradition that formed Western civilization.
“Millions of people who have been abandoned by the world have found hope in your audacious statement on October 31, 2025, that the United States is “prepared to act” militarily and withdraw aid if Nigeria fails to safeguard its Christian population. You have witnessed the reality: Nigerian Christians are in danger of extinction.
“I am writing to inform you that this genocide is not limited to the North; it has spread to the Igbo heartland, where Judeo-Christians are being methodically wiped out under the pretense of counterterrorism.”
“My name is Mazi Nnamdi Okwu Kanu, and I am the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a Judeo-Christian civil rights movement that is nonviolent and peaceful. I have survived four recorded attempts by the Nigerian government to kill me since 2015. A Kenyan High Court verdict (Petition No. E282 of 2021) criticized the extraordinary rendition operation that resulted in my forcible abduction from Kenya on June 20, 2021, which violated both international and Kenyan law. Despite this decision, I was forcibly hauled to Nigeria and placed in solitary confinement in Abuja for the single offense of upholding my people’s international law-guaranteed rights to life, faith, and self-determination.
A covert genocide against Judeo-Christians in Southeast Nigeria was revealed by Kanu to the US President.
“Boko Haram, ISWAP, and Fulani militias—the same extremist-backed forces you have denounced in the North—operate with state complicity in the South-East and Igbo-speaking territories of Benue, Kogi, and Delta,” he said. However, in this case, the Nigerian military itself is the main offender, protected by a false narrative that places the responsibility on victims. These crimes are unquestionably documented.
He revealed that the Nigerian government demonized IPOB by using insecurity as a weapon.
Nigeria has declared IPOB a “terrorist organization” after my wrongful rendition, despite the fact that there is no proof of violence (U.S. State Department, 2021). used state-backed militias to plan “unknown gunmen” attacks, then placed the blame on IPOB. In “counter-terrorism” operations, more than 2,000 Igbo teenagers were killed (Intersociety, 2021–2025). He claimed that Rwanda’s strategy is to “create chaos, blame the victim, justify extermination.”
