The governor of Anambra State, Charles Chukwuma Soludo has rejected claims by the US government suggesting that Christians in Nigeria are victims of a religious genocide.

Speaking on channels television, Soludo described such assertions as false and misleading arguing that the violence in the south-east is rooted in social, political and economic grievances, not religious persecution.

The governor insisted that the situation in the South-East is far more complex than the U.S. narrative suggests explaining that Christians are killing themselves in the south east.

“There is a deeper conversation and introspection about what goes on in the country.

“In this part of the world, eastern Nigeria, it is not religious. People are killing themselves, Christians killing Christians. The people in the bushes are Emmanuel, Peter, and John, all Christian names, and they have maimed and killed thousands of our youths. It has nothing to do with religion.”

Soludo explained;

“In this part of the country, we are 95 percent Christians, and the people in the bushes killing people bear Christian names,” he added. “It is wider than the categorisation of Christians and Muslims. Nigeria will overcome, and it will end in conversation.

“While the United States is entitled to its opinions, its actions must still align with international law.”