Nigeria: Anglican Bishops urges Buhari not to contest 2019 election

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Nigeria: Anglican Bishops urges Buhari not to contest 2019 election

3:43 CAT | 17 Sep 2018

The Bishop of the Diocese of Ondo of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) in Ondo State in south-western Nigeria, Rev. Stephen Oni, has joined the league of eminent Nigerians who have advised President Muhammadu Buhari to drop his re-election bid in 2019. Bishop Oni said that Nigeria needed a young and visionary person to become the next President of the country.

Speaking at the order of service for the investiture and installation of a new chancellor and other officials of the Cathedral Church of St Stephen, Oke-Aluko, Ondo, on Sunday, the bishop lamented that some politicians in Nigeria had overstayed their time in office and refused to leave the political offices for the younger generation, identifying the trend as one of the problems the country was facing.

The report by a local newspaper, the Punch on Monday said that Bishop Oni lamented the recycling of old politicians in power at all levels of government in the country, saying that “politicians go to any length to perpetuate themselves in power”.

“They want to die in office. No wonder, people have thrown caution into the air, we could see impunity everywhere. Worthy legacy is not there, we are only recycling rust brains, they will come back again with their pictures when they give you N1,000 with the popular chant to ‘vote and cook soup’. “

“I don’t expect any 75 to 80 years old still in government, what are they doing there? When will they give their children a place? The age of youthfulness is between 25, 30 and 40; who will want to employ in a bank a 75-year-old man?

“Are we now saying a 75-year-old should go to the National Assembly, what are they doing there? We need young people who have aspirations and highly adventurous. So, let them allow them in,” he said.

Source: APA