(VANGUARD) The Bishops, speaking through their Chairman, Archbishop GoddoWell Avwomakpa, who is also the Chairman of CAN, South South zone noted that only recently the posters of Buhari flooded stategic areas in the Federal Capital Territory with the inscription” Here comes the only saviour for Nigeria”.
According to Avwomakpa, “nobody stops Buhari from contesting but he must conduct himself as an elder statesman, a general in the Nigerian Army and a former leader of this country and not make comments that are capable of inciting a section of the people when the people are in dire need of the spirit of togetherness, love, peace and progress as well as how to cater for many displaced persons in the north owing to activities of Boko Haram”.
The group therefore called on the Federal government to tame Buhari’ s inflammatory remarks by arresting him, saying that this is a deliberate plot to overheat the polity.
The forum chairman Archbishop Avwomakpa also called on Church leaders and their Moslem counterparts to caution politicians to shun politics of bitterness and violence through their sermons.
Besides Avwomakpa noted that the Federal Government needs to take stiffer measures against anybody who makes inciting statement that is capable of sowing seed of discord and disunity in the country no matter how highly placed that person is.
According to him “We can not sacrifice the peace of this country for the comfort and ambition of some persons who are determined to make the country ungovernable until they achieve their selfish political dream.”
