Anglicans urge Buhari to implement recommendations of 2014 confab

• Reaffirm stance against homosexuality

The Anglican Diocese of Evo in Rivers State has beseeched President Mohammadu Buhari to implement the recommendations of the last national conference geared at solving some of the key structural problems bedevilling the country.

The church reaffirmed that its stance against homosexuality has not changed irrespective of the emergence of the Bishop of Kaduna as secretary general of Anglican Consultative Council which is dominated by pro-gay faction of the church.

Bishop of the ‎the Diocese, Rt. Rev Innocent Ordu, told journalists in Port Harcourt yesterday while outlining activities lined up for the 3rd Session the 2nd Synod, that President Buhari’s administration owes Nigerians a duty to implement the recommendations of the last national conference as the last 100 years of the country’s amalgamation has been riddled with crisis caused by unresolved internal contradictions which national dialogues like the last one was aimed to address.

The cleric who gave the theme for the Synod as “Recapturing inspiration of excellence and integrity in service: the Daniel example”, observed that irrespective of the fact that President Buhari’s political party, All Progressives Congress (APC), did not participate in the conference for inexplicable reasons, it is incumbent on him to implement the recommendations which is about Nigeria and not any political party. He insisted that any attempt to jettison the report will amount to the leadership of the country taking Nigerians for granted, and as fools.

“The last national conference convened by the immediate past president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, was not the first. Somehow right from the military to the Olusegun Obasanjo second era, leadership at the national level have had cause to convene national conference or national dialogue and I have always noted that this ‎thing come up when there is so much agitation. So, the government will always device a strategy of calming frail nerves, get people together, let then just discuss there, fight there, come up with something and everywhere is calm. The expectation of the people is that at the end, something will be done with the document or recommendations and it is handed over to the government. But it will go into the cooler and nobody talks about it anymore,” he said.

“Leadership in Nigeria is taking the people for a ride. There is something about people in government that make them believe the rest of Nigerians are fools. If we push them this way, dangle a carrot before them, they will then calm ‎down and we will continue this mischief. That appears to be the picture we are seeing around the corridor of power and it is very sad development for us” he said.