U.S. lawmaker Riley Moore has lashed out at President Bola Tinubu’s government for splashing millions of dollars to lobby the American Congress while failing to address the killing of Christians in Nigeria.

Announcing the passage of the U.S. annual State Department funding bill in a post on X, Mr Moore said, “The Tinubu Administration is spending millions lobbying Congress while failing to adequately address the genocide Nigerian Christians face daily.”

He added, “In my view, the Tinubu Administration has failed to live up to the conditions the appropriations committee placed on security assistance.”

Mr Moore, who was among a U.S. fact-finding delegation to Nigeria on alleged Christian genocide in the most populous African country, said the bill is targeted at restricting “Security Assistance to Nigeria unless certain criteria are met.”

Other criteria the Nigerian government must meet include: “effectively responding to violence and holding perpetrators accountable, prioritizing resources for internally displaced persons and actively returning displaced persons to their ancestral homelands. It requires @SecRubio to assess Abuja’s compliance with these standards.”

According to Mr Moore, the law requires that any U.S. assistance prioritises atrocities prevention, advancing religious freedom, prosecuting Fulani ethnic militia groups, criminal gangs, and other jihadist terrorist groups.

The bill also requires “accountability for police and security forces, delivery of humanitarian assistance, bolstering faith-based organizations’ response in areas impacted by violence and efforts to disarm Fulani ethnic militants.”

While Bayo Onanuga, a spokesperson for Mr Tinubu was yet to respond to request for comments on Mr Moore’s criticism, another aide, Daniel Bwala, told the Gazette to “Reach out to the office of NSA for reaction.”

Tinubu’s government has been under intense pressure from the U.S. government over alleged killing of Christians in the country. The campaign over alleged Christian genocide in Nigeria has led to President Donald Trump redesignating Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern late last year.

Also, the American president ordered bombing of terrorists in their enclave in Sokoto State on December 25, 2025.

On January 14, Peoples Gazette reported that Mr Tinubu’s administration splurged $9 million on a Republican lobbyist in its desperate effort to curry Washington’s favour, particularly to appease Mr Trump on plans to invade Nigeria to confront terrorists allegedly targeting Christians, thereby humiliating his government’s capacity ahead of his re-election bid next year.