The Christian Affiliation of Nigeria, CAN, 19 states and Abuja, has described these castigating the Christmas message of the Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Most Reverend Father Mathew Hassan Kukah, as sectional zealots who see the difficulty in Nigeria from their primordial views.
Recall that the Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Most Reverend Fathy Mathew Hassan Kukah had accused President Muhammadu Buhari of crass nepotism like by no means skilled within the historical past of Nigeria.
Bishop Kukah, in his Christmas message titled, “A Nation in Search of Vindication” delivered in Sokoto on Friday, famous that President Buhari had succeeded in sacrificing the goals of Nigerians on the altar of nepotism by pursuing Northern hegemony.
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Rev John Joseph Hayab, Vice-Chairman,
CAN, 19 Northern State and Abuja, in an announcement, mentioned, “CAN 19 northern states and Abuja have learned with nice shock makes an attempt to additional divide the nation by the Presidency, the management of MURIC and different people and teams geared toward twisting the crux of the homily Bishop Kukah gave at Christmas.
“Of grave misgiving is the baseless declare in an announcement signed by the President of MURIC, Prof Ishaq Akintola, that Bishop Kukah had referred to Islam as a violent faith and requires a coup.”
The assertion lamented that for such a press release to come back from Prof Akintola was not solely laughable however deceptive, with tissue of lies.
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It stated that data present MURIC’s management as typically careless with assertions and plenty of instances performing as if it was a political platform as a substitute of a spiritual one.
“CAN 19 northern states and Abuja, subsequently, condemned in its entirety the deceptive and inciting statements of MURIC and its likes calling on the worldwide, in addition to the local people to notably counsel Prof Akintola of MURIC to study to stroll the trail of honour and never be a service provider of disaster,” it mentioned.
CAN emphasised that studying by way of Bishop Kukah’s “A Nation In Search of Vindication”, “it’s unable to search out any expression suggesting an affront to Islam or a name for a coup,” including that sadly, “MURIC goals to incite residents in opposition to each other alongside the traces of religion as a substitute of denouncing the insecurity witnessed throughout the nation which is the purpose Bishop Kukah’s message.”
“From the east to the south, west and all around the north, travelling has change into a nightmare whereas hapless individuals are dragged from their properties for ransom,” the assertion defined.
It famous that their reminiscence “is recent with the ugly killings of seventy-six farmers in Borno State in early December 2020 whose crime was merely being farmers irking for a supply of livelihoods for his or her households.”
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CAN acknowledged that the Kankara boys’ kidnap, with the excruciating pains the youngsters, their dad and mom and college had been thrown in, nothing was learned from MURIC and their likes, stressing that “now from the blues as Bishop Kukah talked the reality to energy, there are unscrupulous statements aimed toward portraying black a message that was clear and concise alerting the federal government of its failure on the safety of lives and property of Nigerians.”
Based on CAN, given the present happenings in Nigeria with kidnapping, banditry, horrible atrocities dedicated towards hapless residents by members of Boko Haram, Nigerians needs to be united in condemning and discovering options to the terrible situation that Nigerians are in as Bishop Kukah had rightly carried out.
It mentioned it was time for the Presidency, MURIC, and misinformed people to eschew their intolerance and admit that Nigeria beneath Buhari had strayed from the trail and imaginative and prescient that the independence of this nice nation was fought for and gained.
“Let the federal government do the proper factor by creating a way of inclusion for all sundry, defending the residents from hurt, bringing a finish to the rising insecurity in cities, cities, and villages that we may attain greatness collectively,” CAN suggested.
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