General Overseer of Christian
Central Chapel International, Bishop Emma Gospel Isong has called on President
Muhammadu Buhari to confess his sins to Nigerians and pray for forgiveness if
he wants to win his second terms bid in the 2019 presidential election.
Isong stated that the President
has committed so many sins against Nigerians but admitted that to seek a second
term in office was Buhari’s constitutional right.
The cleric however maintained
that there are many hurdles for the President to cross, including the
confession of sins to Nigerians.
Bishop Isong, who was spoke in a telephone interview said, stated that Buhari will be taking
Nigerians for a ride if between now and May 2019, he cannot convince citizens
that he is risking his life and risking the chances of his party to remain in
power.
According to him, “But if Mr
President sit back and look at his record and be honest to himself and come
out, it is not late to confess, the Bible says whoever confesses his sins shall
be forgiven, if Mr President can come back and confess and say 90 per cent of
security chiefs are Fulanis.
“If he can come back and say the
economy is hitting the bottom rock, people are losing jobs, like in our
churches, people are packing out to their villages, they are leaving town, they
are resigning, if Mr President can come out and confess that I have not been
fair to South-South, I have not been fair to South-East.
“Even in the Middle Belt, in
terms of Taraba state, Nassarawa state and of course Benue state, I have not
come out with strong government policy to stop Fulani herdsmen from killing
innocent Nigerians, if Mr President can come out and confess and repent of
course, I will cast my vote for him to be President for second term” he stated.
Bishop Isong said that if
President Buhari cannot do this, then he is taking his party as well as its
electoral chances for granted, he is making a mockery of democracy and risking
his name and integrity which he had built for more than 40 years.
“President Jonathan did not
perform this badly after his first term, he lost the election and if he want to
go by that record, Buhari government is worse than Jonathan and therefore he
cannot be given second term chance if Nigerians’ vote is to be counted,” he
stressed.
Speaking further, the cleric
stated that declaring intention to re-contest does not automatically amount to
winning the elections all things being equal and votes count.
“Constitutionally, the President
has the right to declare for second term because of the Nigerian Constitution,
he is entitled to two terms, it is his right to re-contest as President of
Nigeria.
“He is not in breach of the
constitution. The President himself has confessed and his party members from
Tinibu to governors of APC have said that in the cardinal areas of Mr
President’s first term promises, they have not leave up to expectations.
“They are two things here either
Mr President re-contests and failed like former President Jonathan failed when
he re-contested because of poor performance. By re-contesting he is asking
Nigerians to give him second chance to correct his failures of first term and
that will be left in the court of public opinion through the voters’ cards God
has given to Nigerians to cast the ballot in 2019.”
Isong continued, “I am not
speaking as the National Publicity Secretary of PFN but speaking as Bishop Dr
Emma Isong. I always hold one view about Mr President re-contesting, like I
said, he has a constitutional right to re-contest but if Mr President’s
performance can be enhance this last one year, to improve his record, improve
his scored card, Nigerians can easily be convinced, we change our minds easily,
they can vote for Mr President for second term.
“If Mr President will not improve
on security, embarking on ethnic cleansing, security of Nigeria life and
property, on economic which has hit the bottom rock in the past 40 years in
Nigeria, if Mr President cannot put food on the table of Nigerians and cannot
improve anything in the last one year of his first term, then our votes for him
in his second term would be like building a house on the sand and when the
winds, rains and flood comes, it blows it off.
“And it will be foolish to give
him a second chance, if he cannot use the last one year to convince us he can
do it, there is nothing to be sentimental about even if he was my senior
brother or my father I will not support that.”
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