NCEF: Nigeria Facing Organised Invasion By Foreign Forces Posing as Extremists

National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF), has said the nation was facing an organised invasion of foreign forces masquerading as religious extremists disguising the problems as religious intolerance.

It, therefore, called on the leadership of President Bola Tinubu to as a matter of urgency implement the report of the 2014 National Conference, which included the draft for a new Constitution for Nigeria.

It also stated that the perennial amendment of the Constitution by the National Assembly should cease, and that the legislators should start work on a new constitution for Nigeria.

It said after five alterations to the constitution, without any significant positive impact on the country, the National Assembly should commence work immediately on adopting the report of the 2014 National Conference with its draft Constitution.

The forum advised Tinubu to appoint a Special Investigator to conduct a Commission of Inquiry into the causes, as well as expose the actors in the various acts of terrorism and religious insurgency that overwhelmed Nigeria since 2009.

Chairman of the forum, Dr. Samuel Gani, who made the call during a briefing yesterday in Abuja, said the NCEF called on the indigenous Muslims to calmly examine the issues and take positions that would be in the long-term best interest of their ethnic groups, saying, “What is going on is more than religion.”

He noted that in Plateau and Kaduna States, data existed that hundreds of villages of the ethnic nationalities had been taken over by foreign Fulanis and with the owners of the land being driven into IDP camps while names of the villages had been changed to Fulani names.

He said this was the time for the indigenous ethnic nationalities to carefully define their friends and foes, saying the amount of blood so far shed in Nigeria, involving indigenous Christians, Muslims, and traditionalists, proved that the indigenous ethnic nationalities had the same enemy.