Remi Tinubu, Nigeria’s first lady, has said that President Donald Trump’s focus on protecting Christians in Nigeria is a “divine intervention” but dismissed the campaign of Christian genocide in Nigeria and the U.S. as propaganda.

Mrs Tinubu, a pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, in an interview with The Hill during her visit to the United States, explained that global concern about persecution of Christians in Nigeria was based on “propaganda”.

The first lady, however, claimed that Mr Trump’s focus on protecting Christians in Nigeria was a “divine intervention”.

“Divine in the sense that who would have even noticed Nigeria? Or to really understand what we are grappling with and trying to build the country?” Mrs Tinubu explained.

When asked if Mr Trump is being swayed by propaganda about Christian persecution, Mrs Tinubu said, “I don’t think so. No one in the free world will hear that Christians have been killed — and the U.S. is a Christian country — and you can hear that, and not speak up, or to react.”

Mrs Tinubu, meanwhile, has called for more U.S. military strikes targeted at terrorists and bandits in the northern region of the country.

“Nigeria is looking forward to collaboration….We are expecting that there will be more,” Mrs Tinubu stated in an interview with Fox News on Friday during her visit to the United States.

Asked about America’s Christmas Day strike on terrorists in Sokoto, Mrs Tinubu said, “It was quite a blessing.”