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In Nigeria, a Christian villager defended his people. The state sentenced him to hang. The terrorists walked free. --- A state high court in Kaduna, northern Nigeria, has sentenced a man to hang for defending his people. His name is Victor Solomon. His Adara community — Christian farmers in Southern Kaduna State — calls him Zidane. In October 2018, Islamic terrorists stormed the Kasuwan Magani market, a busy trading hub about thirty miles from Kaduna city. Adara Christian traders working their stalls on a Tuesday. Police counted 55 dead. The Adara counted more than a hundred. The killers murdered some of them inside a police post, in full view of the officers. The next day, the Adara king — a paramount tribal chief, the Agwam Adara — left a meeting with the state governor and drove home through the bush. The terrorists ambushed his convoy. They shot four of his aides on the spot and dragged the king and his wife into the bush. Five days later, his body turned up. They let the wife live to carry the message home. That governor was Nasir El-Rufai. Nigerians call him the Butcher of Kaduna. He admitted on the record that his government handed payments to the Fulani Muslim "herders" who slaughtered Christian farmers across his state. His troops shot nearly a thousand men, women, and children at a religious procession in the city of Zaria. And his administration arrested the Adara survivors of the Kasuwan Magani massacre instead of the men who carried it out. The killing didn't stop with the king. Wave after wave hit the Adara villages through the rest of 2018. The killers burned homes and killed hundreds. They put a whole people under siege. The state convicted zero killers, yet they arrested more than twenty Adara survivors. Zidane stood up in the middle of all that. He risked his own neck to defend his people when the government wouldn't lift a finger. The Adara Development Association — the community's main civic organization — has gone on the record calling him a hero. For that, on January 6, 2026, a Kaduna State High Court sentenced him to death by hanging. Two different courts tried him on similar facts. The first court cleared him in 2024. The second sentenced him to death. Same man. Same defense. Two opposite verdicts. The current Kaduna government calls it due process and warns Nigerians not to spread "misinformation" about it. Here is the punchline. The same state that couldn't convict a single man for slaughtering a hundred Christians at Kasuwan Magani — the same state that couldn't convict a single man for killing the Adara king on his way home from a meeting with the governor — that state is now set to execute the survivor who fought back. That isn't justice. That is a system that has decided Christians have no right to live. The Nigerian regime has a pattern of sentencing Christians to death for self defense. And it goes out of its way to deny recognition and aid to the millions who are displaced, mostly woman and children, now suffering in horrific conditions in hidden concentration camps around the country. Contrast that with what this regime does for the terrorists. The Nigerian federal government runs a program called Operation Safe Corridor. Boko Haram fighters and Fulani militiamen who yell Allahu Akbar while savagely slaughter Christian villages get six months of carpentry class at a military camp, a graduation ceremony, and a stipend. By all international standards, the program is a sick joke. It is estimated that up to fifty percent quickly return to terror -- well fed, rested, educated, and better connected thanks to unwitting taxpayers and a complicit government. Nigeria's Chief of Defence Staff calls the these savages "prodigal sons." National Security Adviser Nuhu "Bugsy" Ribadu calls them "brothers." The Sultan of Sokoto, who speaks for Nigeria's Muslims, called them hellbound from a podium in Abuja the same week his Fulani militants attacked a Christian burial in Plateau State. Despite his recent, cynical media statement, the Sultan has taken no action to stop them in 20 years - no fatwa, no names named. Many believe him to be the architect. A vacation and carpentry certificte for the man who hacked apart Christians with a machete. A noose for the man who stood in his way. Last Christmas, after a year of global pressure, a Christian state governor in northeastern Nigeria pardoned a Christian farmer named Sunday Jackson — convicted for killing a Fulani "herder" who attacked him with a knife. Eleven days after that pardon, Kaduna sentenced Zidane. The regime watched, learned and then pushed harder. The world saved Jackson and can save Zidane. But only if the world hears his name. Say it. Share it. Tag the Governor of Kaduna State, Uba Sani. Tag your congressman. Tag your senator. Tag every reporter who covers Nigeria. Use the hashtag #freezidane Victor Solomon aka Zidane. The man who stood between his Christian people and the terrorists who were killing them. The man Kaduna State sentenced to hang for it. #FreeZidane #EarthShaker