Nigeria Is A Vehicle With A Knocked Engine –
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Catholic Archbishop of Kaduna, Most Rev Matthew ManOso Ndagoso has urged Nigerians to vote for a candidate who values Nigeria’s religious and cultural differences.
Ndagoso stated this in Kaduna during an interview with Journalists at the celebration of the ‘Christ the King’ by the Catholic faithfuls.
“Nigeria is a very diverse country, we all come from different cultural and religious backgrounds and our diversity is not a curse but a blessing from God.
“We need leaders who can be able to manage our diversity very well. Therefore if our cultural and religious background should be properly managed, it will enrich our country,” Ndagoso said while reiterating that Nigeria needs leaders who can manage both religious and cultural differences.
“We have leaders who don’t value our cultural and religious differences and that is why there is agitation for self determination. Our leaders are so nepotistic.
“What we have gone through for the past seven years in this country is unimaginable. We have never suffered in this country the way we are suffering in the last seven years.
“We have leaders who are not able to manage our diversity very well, they are so nepotistic. The damage they have done to this country, I don’t know how many years it will take to fix it.
“If any candidate or political party dismisses other peoples sensitivity, I think they are sending a message to them. Any candidate who does not care about our religious sensitivity, why should we vote the person into power? It is a waste of votes. Anybody who aspires to lead this country must give every Nigerian a sense of belonging and what is happening now is not giving every Nigerian a sense of belonging,” Ndagoso said while calling on the government to tackle the insecurity challenges bedeviling the country adding that some of his priests are still in kidnappers’ den,” he said.
Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi has described Nigeria as a vehicle with a knocked engine caused by the recklessness and quackery of its past drivers.
Speaking yesterday at his campaign rally at the Lekan Salami Stadium in Ibadan, Oyo State, Obi, who was with his running mate Datti BabaAhmed, said a new Nigeria is possible if entrusted into the hands of trained, confident and fully qualified drivers.
Introduced by the Director General of the Campaign,
Doyin Okupe, Obi began his speech by paying glowing tributes to late Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Ladoke Akintola. Obi also paid tributes to the current leaders of the Yoruba, especially Pa Ayo Adebanjo leader of the Afenifere, who was there physically.
Obi said that by standing on the side of equity and justice Adebanjo and Afenifere had stood out as one of the custodians of the conscience of the nation. He said that justice, equity and fairness remained the only durable foundation for the future of a prosperous Nigeria.