Ndukuba canvasses selfless, sacrificial leadership 

AREWA Consultative Forum (ACF) has lamented that the 2025 Easter was being celebrated amid daunting socio-economic, political and security challenges worsening in the country.
  
The Northern leaders said monstrous corruption, selfishness on the part of leaders, nepotism and ostentatious lifestyles of political leaders were the bane of the country’s growth.
  
Consequently, the Primate of All Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Henry Ndukuba, urged political office holders in the country to imbibe the lessons of Easter and make sacrifices that would lead to the improvement of the well-being of the people.
  
Besides, ACF in its Easter message, yesterday, lamented that communities in Benue, Borno, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Katsina, Kaduna, Niger, Plateau, Zamfara and other states were daily visited with debilitating and senseless deaths, destruction, dislocation, tears and fractured inter-group relations. 
  
The message signed by ACF National Publicity Secretary, Prof. Tukur Muhammad-Baba,  called on Christian faithful in Nigeria to, in the spirit of Easter, pray for peace, security and economic recovery for Nigeria, for God’s intercession, so that the leaders would be re-endowed with faith, love for ordinary citizens and the wisdom to chart Nigeria to the path to righteousness and glory.
  
The forum also prayed God to further re-energise the security agencies to crush the reigns of terror, criminality and insecurity that non-state actors had been subjecting the people to and which seek to destabilise Arewa communities and Nigeria at large.

SPEAKING during the church service held at the Cathedral Church of the Advent, Life Camp, Gwarinpa, Abuja, Ndukuba appealed to political office holders to emulate Jesus Christ’s leadership style and serve the citizens selflessly.
  
He decried the weaponisation of religious and political leanings, which, according to him, is exacerbating division in the country, and called for love, unity and peaceful coexistence.

He said: “Let us learn from Rwanda, a place that knew what death and sacrifice are, and they have learned their lessons. In our case, if the Rwandan genocide were to be in Nigeria, the genocide wouldn’t be forgotten. We would be playing it up to gain a political advantage. 
  
The cleric, who decried the high level of corruption in the country, said, “Corruption is killing this nation. We are witnessing the weaponisation of corruption. We want to remind ourselves, the Cocoa House in Ibadan (Oyo State) was not built with oil money. 
  
“The old Niger Bridge in Onitsha was not built with oil money, including the scholarship that raised a great number of our leaders today. They benefited from the government scholarships, but how many are benefiting from their leadership? People believed in the young people and invested in them. What are we getting today? Jesus died as a young man, at 33. We should pay attention to the youth.”