2023: Sultan, CAN, Others Vow To Protect Nigeria Against Politicians

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’adAbubakar, and the President, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Most Rev. Daniel Okoh, have said that clerics will not allow any politician take the country hostage come 2023.
This is even as the Methodist Prelate, Dr. Samuel Kanu-Uche, insisted that the nation will maintain its unity and achieve progress when the government work in synergy with religious groups.
They stated these while speaking at a valedictory dinner in honour of the immediate past CAN president, Rev. Samson Ayokunle, in Abuja.
The Sultan, who advised both Christian and Muslim clerics to be hospitable to all political office seekers who solicit their support, however, charged them to thoroughly interrogate their developmental plans for the nation.
He said, “As you know the time for political campaign will soon start. Political office seekers and politicians will come to seek our votes. We have to treat them well and preach to them to be just and fear God in whatever they do.
“We must not play the blame-game and allow anyone to take our country hostage. We know politicians will come to you and to us as well as going everywhere, promising things that they cannot deliver.
“Let’s challenge them. If someone tells you that they are going to do this or that, ask them ‘how are you going to do it.
“As Nigeria Interreligious Council, NIREC, we will sit and discuss these issues. At that level also, we will reach out to political leaders, sit with them and discuss with them what plans they have for this country. Then we will decide who, as God Almighty seems it fit, will lead the country.”