Catholic Church writes Tinubu, Sani over El-Rufai’s controversial religious comment

Catholic Church writes Tinubu, Sani over El-Rufai’s controversial religious comment

 The Catholic community in Kaduna State has called on
President Bola Tinubu and Governor Uba Sani to call the immediate past governor
of the state, Nasir El-Rufai to order before he sets the entire country into a
religious crisis.

 

This is against the backdrop of a controversial statement on
Muslim dominance in the governance of Kaduna State credited to the former
governor.

 

According to a trending video, El-rufai had in a meeting
with some Muslim clerics, said in Hausa language that most Christians in the
state did not vote for his party, the All Progressives Congress, hence the
reason he orchestrated their exclusion from being even Deputy Governor.

 

The former governor also claimed that the APC can win
elections in the state and the nation in general without the Christians.

 

However, in an open letter copied to the Presidency and the
Governor of Kaduna State, the Nigerian Catholic Diocesan Priests Association
(NCDPA), Kaduna State chapter asked Governor Sani to make his official position
on El-rufai’s inciting utterances known because he (Sani) was at the event
where El-rufai made the controversial statement.

 

The letter was jointly signed by chairmen of Kaduna
Archdiocese, Rev. Fr Joseph Gandu, Kafanchan Diocese, Very Rev. Fr Douglas Rock
and Zaria Diocese, Very Rev. Fr Samuel Ameh.

 

The Priests said they expected Uba Sani to use his good
office to correct the fallacies that the former governor’s actions and comments
have created and propagated in Kaduna State in the past eight years.

 

The open letter was copied to the Presidency, the three
Catholic Bishops of Kaduna, Kafanchan and Zaria; Archbishop Matthew Man’oso
Ndagoso, Bishop Julius Yakubu Kundi and Very Rev. Fr Michael Kagarko,
respectively.

 

“We cannot fold our hands and watch unpatriotic persons who
neither live in the state nor care about it, come and set it ablaze at will.

 

£More so, we and our congregations have prominently been at
the receiving end of the terrors of ineffective governance, especially in the
last eight ( years.

 

“We are writing to you because we want you to succeed.
Religion occupies the place given it under the Constitution, and should never
be used as a cover up for incompetence and failure,” the letter partly read.

Source: Catholic Church writes Tinubu, Sani over El-Rufai’s controversial religious comment

 - NigerianEye

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