The Venezuela Solidarity Campaign in Nigeria wishes to clarify recent misleading social media content and reaffirm our unwavering solidarity with the people and government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
In the second week of November last year, our coalition paid a solidarity visit to the Embassy of Venezuela in Nigeria. This visit was a peaceful and principled diplomatic engagement aimed at opposing the threats of military invasion, regime-change operations, and economic warfare being orchestrated by the United States government against Venezuela.
Our position then, as now, remains unequivocal: sovereign nations must not be invaded, destabilized, or coerced under any guise.
As a coalition, we firmly believe in dialogue, diplomacy, and respect for international law, not military occupation or imperial aggression. We warned at the time—and we reiterate now—that the recurring narrative of “fighting drugs and arms smuggling” has often been weaponized to justify political abductions, foreign interventions, and the plunder of national resources. Venezuela’s vast oil reserves and strategic green lands remain the real target.
And the recent speeches of U.S President Donald Trump has shown that the abduction and bombings of Venezuela is all about “multi-national corporations” moving back in and running the oil industry in Venezuela.
We stand with the positions of the people in rejecting U.S Imperialism. Any attempt to impose leadership on Venezuela from outside its borders constitutes a grave violation of international norms and sets a dangerous precedent for countries of the Global South.
We equally condemn the renewed threats to invade Greenland and such other countries like Iran, Nigeria, and others all to steal from their vast oil and such other minerals.
While we are not moved nor shaken by the threats and attacks on our coalitions over the now-trending Solidarity Walk we made to the Venezuelan Embassy in a foreshadowing of the U.S horrible invasions, we call on Nigerians who are inspired by global peace and justice to join us in solidarity, and conduct marches and mass actions to reject all forms of Imperialist madness and attacks on sovereignty and democratic rights of nations.
We condemn attempts by certain political actors, driven by hostility toward the PBAT-led government, to align with U.S. imperial interests and advance narratives that could justify foreign interference in Nigeria.
The reckless politicization of alleged historical forfeiture claims from the early 1990s is dangerous and exposes the country to external destabilization.
Nigeria has a history of standing in solidarity with the oppressed people in the world, historical during apartheid in South Africa, Youth in Nigeria formed Youth Solidarity with Southern Africa and even raised funds in Nigeria to fight against apartheid in South Africa and also to against colonisation in other southern African like Namibia.
What Venezuela is facing today could confront Nigeria tomorrow if vigilance is abandoned.
We therefore: Call on the immediate Release of President Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores who were illegally abducted by Donald Trump’s barbaric regime.
We reaffirm our total and unwavering solidarity with the people and government of Venezuela;
Call for an immediate end to U.S. interference in Venezuelan affairs;
Demand respect for Venezuela’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and democratic institutions;
We urge the Nigerian people to remain alert, proactive, and people-centered, strengthening pro-masses policies, national unity, and social justice as the first line of defense against imperial aggression.
A stitch in time saves nine. Nations that fail to protect their people and sovereignty invite foreign intrusion and destabilization as is evident in Sudan and Congo.
Dare to struggle.
Dare to win.
Signed:
Venezuela Solidarity Campaign in Nigeria
Gerald O. Katchy — National Secretary, Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR)
Blessing Yusuf — FCT Chairperson, Federation of Informal Workers of Nigeria (FIWON)
Omole Ibukun — Director, Creative Change Centre
Abiodun Emmanuel Fayemi — Head, African Farmers and Agricultural Practitioners (AFAP)
Kunle Wizeman Ajayi, Deputy National Secretary of the African Action Congress (AAC,) and General Secretary of the United Actions For Democracy (UAD.)
