Review your appointments in the interest of national unity - Anglican Communion tells Buhari
- The mother diocese of the Church of Nigeria, Diocese on the Niger, has urged President Buhari to bring competent people into his government
- The diocese said that Buhari's war against corruption is targeted at the weak and helpless Nigerians
- It also lamented the state of infrastructure in the southeast geopolitical zone
President Muhammadu Buhari has been called upon by the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Diocese on the Niger, to review his appointments in the interest of national unity by bringing in the best brains irrespective of ethnic, political, or religious inclinations.
President Buhari was urged to stop parading the degree of nepotism, corruption, insensitivity and impunity in his government and show concern about the suffering of Nigerians, Vanguard reports.
Legit.ng notes that the diocese also expressed dissatisfaction with the state of infrastructure in the southeast geopolitical zone, particularly the Onitsha-Umunya-Enugu highway and the Enugu-Port Harcourt highway, describing them as death traps and sad reminders of the civil war.
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The diocese said: “We are sad that the federal roads in the southeast have continued to deteriorate. Almost all federal roads in the five Igbo speaking states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo are not motorable and with high rate of accidents occurring on them.”
Bishop on the Niger, Rt Rev Owen Nwokolo, who made the comments in his charge to the Third Session of the 30th Synod of Diocese on the Niger at the St Paul's Anglican Church, Alor, Idemili South local government area of Anambra state, said: "The federal government has maintained a conspiratorial silence over matters that concerned the southeast zone and deliberately allowed almost all the infrastructural facilities in the zone to fail, including the Oji River Power Station that was supplying constant electricity to the people of the defunct Eastern Region.”
The diocese also described Buhari's war on corruption as “a woeful failure where a privileged few are anointed political prophets who walk the street of world capitals enjoying their loots, while the weak and helpless Nigerians are being chased about by government’s anti-corruption machinery.
“In line with the ongoing clamour for political restructuring in Nigeria, we make bold to say that Anambra state politics also needs restructuring. While we endorse the zoning arrangement where the Anambra North, Central and South senatorial zone agreed to take turns in governance, based on mutual agreement reached by the state elders and leaders of thought, we equally recommend that the same structural arrangement be considered for religious denominations.
“We propose that for justice, equity and fair play to reign in Anambra state politics, the Anglican Church should produce the next governor of Anambra state, after the present administration, and therefore urge all political parties to present Anglican from the Anambra South Senatorial zone for the next governorship election in 2022."
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that the president, Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) Worldwide, Pastor Abraham Akinosun, on Saturday, April 28, urged churches to stop complaining but pray for President Muhammadu Buhari to overcome challenges facing the nation.
Akinosun made the appeal while ministering at the grand finale of a seven-day fasting and prayer at Ikoyi Mountain, Ero-Omo village, Osun for the nation.
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Source: Legit.ng
