Call Buhari to order, cleric tells Jonathan

Date: 18-05-2012 5:40 am (11 years ago) | Author: Paddy Hayes
- at 18-05-2012 05:40 AM (11 years ago)
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By GBENGA ARIYIBI
 
ADO-EKITI – CATHOLIC Bishop of Ekiti Diocese, Most Rev. Felix Ajakaye, has challenged President Goodluck Jonathan to call the former Head of State, General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd), who recently threatened that the country would be bloody if the 2015 election was rigged, to order.
 
Ajakaye argued that the statement credited to the former Head of State was provocative and unguided and must be checked, noting that the former Head of State was in the habit of threatening the nation as he similarly threatened the nation that he would make government ungovernable for the president if the election of 2011 was rigged.
 
Speaking with newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, yesterday, he said” “Nigeria belongs to all of us, we have no other place to go and we should watch our utterances, no matter our status.
 
”We are in a very trying time and we need to be prayerful and work our prayers; we need to be positive and concrete in our thoughts and work our thoughts.
 
”The former Head of State ought to have been invited by security agencies for questioning if we are in other climes. I don’t know what our security agents are still waiting for. No matter whose ox is gored, if another person had made such a statement, they will say he is planning something against the country.
 
“But, for making such a statement I will say that seems to be his character and we should not allow him and others to be saying that anymore, the laws are there. It was the same Buhari who said he was going to make the country ungovernable if the elections were rigged in 2011. But, again, it is because of the government we have, if we have a government that is very decisive, we would not be having such negative and destructive utterances from people.
 
”If a leader is decisive, something will have to be done, so that a leader is not decisive now they are trading words; we should not allow Buhari to ruin Nigeria because he wants to rule at all cost.”
 
via Vanguard:  http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/05/call-buhari-to-order-cleric-tells-jonathan/


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