Cleric tasks INEC on credible elections, urges truce between Fed Govt, ASUU

Prelate of the Eternal Sacred Order of the Cherubim and Seraphim (Worldwide), Dr. David Bob-Manuel, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct free, fair and credible elections in 2023 for sustainability of democracy.

He said it is expedient for all Nigerians to choose a leader that has solutions to the perennial socio-economic and security problems.

Bob-Manuel, who stated this yesterday, at a press briefing to commemorate the fifth induction thanksgiving in Lagos, said: “We all must be part of the democratic process to ensure peaceful transition to a new dawn.”

The youths must not allow themselves to be used as political thugs and hoodlums to disrupt the electoral process. It is my candid advice for all voters to reject Greek gifts offered by politicians to cause mayhem during and after the elections or given to mortgage their future.”

He, therefore, urged all religious leaders to pray for peace before and after the general elections.

Besides, he urged the Federal Government, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and all stakeholders in the educational sector to resolve the lingering strike with the urgency it demands to save the sector from total collapse.

Bob-Manuel said such prolonged interruption of university education undermines development of human capital and makes the certificates obtained from the tertiary institutions of little or no value.

He said public universities, which were the delights of parents, had been brought to its lowest ebb. He, however, tasked the government to continue to invest in effective modern methodology, security technologies and manpower to fight insecurity in the country.

He said government should listen to the yearnings of the people for restructuring and state police, which would be of great impact in solving the issue of insecurity.