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The state governor of Nye Wike called on church leaders to speak against the illegal and corrupt actions of the federal government to prevent the country from moving in the unprecedented crisis.
Speaking at the main address today in the cathedral of Sv. Paul in Port Harcourt, Wike called on the Church to be active moral guardians of political power in God's direction to re-establish his influence as a critical voice of justice. ...
"As long as the state of affairs in Nigeria does not conform to the ideas of justice, democracy, the rule of law and the moral injunctions of God, and as long as their remains no clear hope that things are going to change for the good of the country, we need as many voices that can speak truth to power and the Church of God cannot afford to keep quiet, while things go wrong and the nation continues to drift dangerously towards the cliff of crisis."
Governor Wike regretted that the fight against corruption has been politicised and skewed in a manner to oppress opponents of the Federal Government.
"People say power of any kind corrupts, but political power can be more vicious if exercised unchecked and in disregard of democratic norms.While we all support the Federal Government’s much-vaunted, but pretentious fight against corruptionit is patently wrong to fight corruption with corruption and double-speak or by side-stepping the rule oflaw, disobeying court orders and blackmailing the judiciary to submission. Unfortunately, this is the order of the day under the present democratic dispensation.
"How can the Federal Government justify the situation where former public office holders from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are continuously harassed, hunted and hounded with corruption charges by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, while at the same time sparing those other members who defected to the All peoples Congress of similar investigations and treatment except the pure vendetta against His Excellency, Dr. Bukola Saraki for daring to contest the office of the Senate Presidency against the wish of the cabals in his party.
"What has become of the case of those who were arrested for printing fake ballot papers with INEC’s authentic serial numbers to be used to rig the December 2016 legislative re-run elections? Have we not been vindicated by the recent judgments of the election tribunals, which strangely but questionably accepted and based their judgments on the fake results presented to them from the custody of the Nigerian Police, which actively and shamelessly participated in the rigging process."
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