Memoirs of a Nigerian Anti-Christian Genocide Activist Wandering for Asylum through Fifteen African Countries to the Philippines
By Nwankwo T. Nwaezeigwe
Whenever I look back to how I finally came to the Republic of the Philippines after passing through hell and brimstones in fifteen nations of my Mother-Africa, it looked as if I was recounting a Hollywood horror film. I often ask myself: “How did I pass through these seemingly impassable dangers?” I then realized that why God did not allow me to die on countless situations when death became inescapable in the eyes of any man, was for the reason I later knew to be his desire that I should continue the battle against Christian Genocide in Nigeria.
Indeed, there were many obvious situations where there was no reason why I shouldn’t have been killed and, I was surprised as much as my assailants were, to escape and continue to struggle for my life, while they continued to pursue frustrated by God. It is therefore impossible for anyone to either convince or compel me to stop the same battle for which God kept me alive today.
Only God and I know the reality of what I passed through; not any other man; not even the accounts presented in this book can tell it all. Accounts of historical episodes can only go as far as the historian can reserve spaces for and cannot represent the totality of the entire events.
Historical accounts center mainly on the commanding aspects of episodes in human history and not the impossible task of minute-to-minute accounts of human activities on earth. This is an indisputable fact in historical reconstruction. What I have just presented are the marginal details of what I went through and not the entire episode.
Although I have long been in the battle against Fulani Islamization of Nigeria and the resulting Christian Genocide, which began with mass slaughter of Middle Belt Christians and anti-Christian riots in Muslim Cities of the North under the inspirational leaderships of the late Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) leader, Dr. Frederick Isiotan Faseun and, the Emeritus President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), His Eminence Pastor Ayo Oritsajafor, right from the regime of President Olusegun Obasanjo; my real battle against Islamization and Christian Genocide in Nigeria that resulted to my present ordeal, began in 2016 when I took the Federal Government to Federal High Court Asaba in Suit No.: FHC/ASB/CS/11/2016, through my two eminent counsels, late Prof Ben Nwabueze, SAN, and Elder Solomon Asemota, SAN, over President Muhammadu Buhari’s planned Islamization of Nigeria through the use of Islamic terrorists. That fear eventually became the case today.
In this compendium of sixty-eight (68) chapters, I have endeavoured to create three different but intertwined episodes. The first is the historical background to the second, the second being the consequence of battling the first; while the third defines the existential consequences of the first.
From the first episode, we can unequivocally confirm that the current Islamic insurgencies in Nigeria, which have resulted in the extreme case of Christian Genocide, are founded on the script of the 1804 Fulani jihad of Usman dan Fodio. From that 1804 episode through the British colonial era to the present, that script has remained the defining factor of political disunity and instability in Nigeria to date.
And unless the successors and current bearers of that monster script are properly put in their exact political place in Nigeria, the people of Nigeria will never know political peace, and the nation called Nigeria risks going the way of Tito’s Yugoslavia. This is the Gospel truth.
It was in pursuance of the fulfillment of that 1805 script that the current inheritors of this script rose up against President Olusegun Obasanjo, whose religion of Christianity was seen as anathema to their religion of violence and destruction known as Islam. Their first move was to elevate Sharia to the level of national politics by declaring Sharia law as a major legal component of their States, which was intended to undermine the regime of President Olusegun Obasanjo.
When that devilish sharia plan failed through President Obasanjo’s diligent tactical approach to the obvious political provocation, they resorted to the extreme course of Islamic military insurrection through the formation of Boko Haram Islamic terrorists, which soon became a hydra-headed monster that has defied the military might of the almighty giant of Africa through the piggish birth of other similar hydra-headed Islamic terrorist monsters currently defined by Islamic State of West Africa (ISWAP), Islamic Fulani terrorists often miscalled herdsmen, the roving Zamfara State-based Islamic Bandits and the Sokoto Caliphate-sponsored Lakurawa terrorists.
In a real sense, therefore, the beginning of current Islamic terrorism in Nigeria, while remotely traced to the script of Usman dan Fodio’s 1805 jihad, has its current origin to Muslim opposition of the Christian President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2000, which was later extended to a higher level of opposition to the Christian President Goodluck Jonathan in 2010.
That was how Nigeria found herself battling multiple Islamic insurgency groups till date. And because the idea and subsequent creation of these insurgency groups was the handiwork of the Islamic leaders of the country, it becomes not just difficult but impossible to be confronted frontally and with sincerity by the Nigerian Government. It was in my bid to confront this monster that led to the second episode.
On the second episode, only few people who had followed my ordeal closely either with compassion or as accomplices in the attempt to kill me were aware that since January 2018 till my surgery in the Philippines on March 2024, a period of more than six years, I walked with the aid of clutches, which arose from my broken left femur at the hip-joint, in my bid to escape the Directorate of State Security (DSS) onslaught.
The following accounts of my ordeal might appear as a Hollywood horror script designed to excite my readers; but the truth is that the accounts are the truth and nothing but the truth, to put it in legal parlance. Short of interpreting the accounts as the act of invincibility on my part, as some people might assume, the story profoundly displays what Psalm 23:4 means by walking “through the valley of the shadow of death” under the cover of God’s protection. Only a person under direct divine protection can pass through what I passed through and still be alive.
And many people tend to wonder why I continued to miraculously escape my assailants from one country to another, and still continue to fight for the same cause for which I was wounded, and continue to be pursued to be killed?
The reason is obvious:
Having died several times and God Almighty said: “No it is not yet your time to die, for I have ordained you to live beyond 90 years of age”; conscious of the fact that thousands of innocent Nigerians, including members of the military and police who did not even utter a single word of condemnation against the oppressive Islamic Federal Government of Nigeria and their terrorist hirelings, have been kidnapped and gruesomely murdered in cold-blood, which both the military and Police have been helpless to confront; and Fully assured by God that all those who wished me dead, planned for my death and, actually participated in seeking my death, will ultimately meet their deaths before me, I feel emboldened by the courage granted by God through Our Lord Jesus Christ and the guardianship of the Holy Spirit, to continue the battle against Christian Genocide in Nigeria.
Today I stand vindicated by the emerging episodes of Nigerian history and politics, since what I started fighting against in the manner of John the Baptist shouting in the wilderness, has emerged before our faces. But unlike the case of John the Baptist shouting in the wilderness to remind his kinsmen of the coming Savior and Our Load Jesus Christ, my shout in the wilderness was instead a warning against the coming evil of Genocide. When I started telling the Nigerian Christian leadership of the impending Genocide against Christians in Nigeria, I was branded a hungry noisemaker and ignored by them. This has always been my prayer: “Father let me live and witness what I have been warning the Nigerian Christians against. Today, Nigerian Christians are besieged by a people whose religion celebrates the killing of people as a virtue and a matter of doctrinal commission.
In my struggle for survival, God revealed to me the true meaning of “Good Samaritan” through experience. There is no doubt that help came by way of some expected people. But the greatest part of my experience was those helps that came from unexpected people I never knew or met in life, when survival and the world around me seemed inevitably finished. That further taught me the meaning of Psalm 23 which I will not hesitate to quote ipso facto:
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
But there is the question of profound spiritual re-orientation that resulted from my horror experiences. The occasional appearance of my late father and, Oboshi and Iyioji Deities of my town in what looked like a mid-way between real dream and trance to warn me of impending dangers as well as caution me on what to eat and what not to eat, including the traditional diviner’s message in Ghana that God instructed him to ask me why I was not going to Church when I am fighting his battle, generated in me agitated questions on the doctrinal relationship between Christianity and traditional African belief system.
This brings us to the third episode, which centers on the extreme consequence of the first episode that resulted to Christian Genocide in Nigeria and subsequent intervention of President Donald Trump of the United States of America. In effect, President Trump’s intervention in Nigeria, when interpreted biblically, expresses the latter verses of Psalm 23.
In this third episode, I presented a plethora of documentary evidence that proved that even under the siege of my adversaries, I continued the battle against Islamization and Christian Genocide in Nigeria, with the full conviction that real help will come from the United States through President Donald Trump.
The last chapter before the topical conclusion deals with part of my relentless efforts to see that Christianity takes back Nigeria’s political leadership, through my unequivocal support for the Labour Party Presidential candidate in the 2023 General elections Peter Obi, without minding if he acknowledged my efforts. I churned out more than thirty pro-Peter Obi Presidential candidacy blog articles and numerous You-Tube interviews and discourses for the reason of my struggle to save Nigeria from vile Islamization which has resulted to the heinous crime of Christian Genocide.
Part of these articles was the series on the kangaroo judgment of the 2023 Presidential Election Petitions Appeal Court. Although I was not a fan and, still not a fan of Peter Obi, I still believe that the worst Christian President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is better than the best Muslim President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
- Nwankwo Anthony Okoboshi Nwaezeigwe, PhD, Odogwu of Ibusa Clan & President, International Coalition against Christian Genocide in Nigeria (ICAC-GEN), Pasig City, Metro-Manila, Republic of the Philippines, March 28, 2026
