BEWARE OF POLITICAL MASQUERADES IN THE CHRISTIAN FOLD – GROUP WARNS

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BEWARE OF POLITICAL MASQUERADES IN THE CHRISTIAN FOLD – GROUP WARNS 

President Buhari in a warm chat with VP Prof. Yemi Osinbajo

There is no iota of truth in the allegation that President Muhammadu Buhari is in support of Fulani herdsmen killings and is pursuing an Islamic agenda, a group, Forum of United Nigerians Against Divisive Elements (FUNADE), has said.

In a statement on Monday, the group also advised Christian bodies to shun divisive and baseless that are aimed at causing disunity among Christians and religious unrest in the country.

The National Secretary of FUNADE, Arikpo Essien noted that President Buhari had always picked southerners and Christians as his running mates, an indication which Essien said rubbishes the allegation that Buhari’s presidency has an Islamis agenda..

The group also noted that the choice of a Christian Vice President in the mould of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, was not solely that of President Buhari, but of the Senator Bola Tinubu led ACN.

Parts of the statement read, “The choice of Yemi Osinbajo in the ACN, ANPP, CPC, New PDP alliance that brought about the  APC, was not Buhari’s choice. It was the choice of the Tinubu- led ACN. An alliance essentially between the North and the South-West of Nigeria.  In two previous failed presidential campaigns of Buhari, his running mates were from the South East: Ume-Ezeoke and Chuba Okadigbo. So it’s simply nonsense to suggest  that Buhari chose Osinbajo in order to buy the silence of Christians.

It further noted that the false allegations making the rounds on sections of social media are the handiwork of desperate politicians trying to divide the country by stoking religious tension among Nigerians, especially with the recurrent clashes between herdsmen and farmers in some parts of the country.

Pointing out that the killer herdsmen have not only desecrated place of worship of both Christians and Muslims, the group noted that the lives of all Nigerians matter more than the sentiments in messages from “politicians masquerading as concerned Christians or from a truly misinformed concerned persons” are spreading to further their selfish interests.

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BEWARE OF POLITICAL MASQUERADES IN THE CHRISTIAN FOLD – STATEMENT BY THE FORUM OF UNITED NIGERIANS AGAINST DIVISIVE ELEMENTS, FUNADE

This Christian Awake message is either from politicians masquerading as concerned Christians and there are many or from a truly misinformed concerned person.

But let us set out the facts. There is no truth at all in the allegation that Buhari is a Jihadist or is in support of Fulani herdsmen killings.

Let us first remind ourselves that it was under a Christian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo that 12 Northern States of Nigeria declared Sharia law. If this had happened under a Fulani President, you can imagine what the religious politicians would say.

Second it was under a Christian President, Goodluck Jonathan that the Boko Haram insurgency arose. The religious politicians who were benefiting from Jonathan, who he gave N7billion in February 2014 to share amongst themselves, then said Buhari and APC were Islamists who were behind the Boko Haram to make the country ungovernable for Jonathan.

The lies continued until Boko Haram attacked Buhari in Kaduna, killing five of his family members and aides and nearly killing him. The same Boko Haram under Jonathan abducted 200 largely Christian girls from Chibok. The government did nothing.

It was Buhari’s government that eventually started bringing them home. We May have forgotten that under the Christian Jonathan’s regime that Boko Haram attacked police headquarters and UN offices in Abuja. They attacked churches and mosques, schools and other public places all under a Christian President.

A few examples: On January 6, 2012, 12 persons and 12 Christian worshipers were killed in the twin attacks in Adamawa State.

Also on February 25, 2012, A Boko Haram suicide bomber detonated himself at a church in Jos, Plateau State, killing 6 worshippers.

In April, suspected Boko Haram gunmen attacked a church in Kano and Maiduguri, where at least 19 people were killed.

On August 12, 2013, an attack on a Maiduguri mosque killed 56 people; and in November 3, 2014, a suicide bombing attack in Yobe State killed 15 Shiites.

Between January 2012 and May, 2015, there have been several attacks on churches.

For instance, on June 7, 2012 in Kaduna State,  19 persons were killed in bomb attacks against three churches.

On August 7, 2012, Boko Haram gunmen killed another 19 persons when they attacked a Deeper Life Church in Kogi State.

Similarly, on December 22, 2014, a suicide bomber detonated explosives at the gates of a church during service, killing 8 persons.

And on New Year’s day on January 1, 2015, a suicide bomber died in an attempt to bomb ECWA Church II, behind the State University in Gombe.

In the same period farmer- herdsmen clashes took place in Benue, Plateau, and other places.

How is it that the authors of this write-up pretend not to know that Fulani herdsmen have killed more people in Zamfara, (an almost 90% Muslim State,) than both Benue and Taraba put together? And that almost everyone killed is Muslim? Or that over 800 Fulanis were killed in the Mambilla Plateau?

So the attack on a church in Gwer local government by mad men at 5am in the morning must be blamed on the President.

Where is your sense of fairness and justice? Why is it that you cannot see the hand of politicians desperate to discredit Buhari on his security credentials in this?  What better way to create chaos and blame it on the President than walking into a church and killing worshippers? Where have you heard before that Fulanis many of whom are Bororos not even Muslims will go and attack a church?

Why have you not blamed the bombing of mosques in Adamawa State where dozens died last November on Buhari. So the fact that a Fulani is President and there are clashes basically over land and water means that it must be his fault?

Everyone who falsely accuses another of murder will not escape the judgment of God. Christians must not be propagators of falsehood especially sponsored by the opposition most of who want to return to continue the open and despicable looting that Buhari has now stopped.

By the way, the choice of Yemi Osinbajo in the ACN, ANPP, CPC, New PDP alliance that brought about the APC, was not Buhari’s choice. It was the choice of the Tinubu- led ACN. An alliance essentially between the North and the Southwest of Nigeria.  In two previous failed presidential campaigns of Buhari, his running mates were from the South East: Ume-Ezeoke and Chuba Okadigbo. So it’s simply nonsense to suggest that Buhari chose Osinbajo in order to buy the silence of Christians.

By the way I heard a speech made by the Vice President at the Deeper Life Church last Tuesday, you can read his speech, it will probably help you to see that this man is God sent to us at this time and as believers our job is to uphold him in prayers like Mordecai and the whole lot of Jews for Esther. The truth will prevail.

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