Group Commends President Buhari For Rejecting Gay Offer

The National President of the Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa of Nigeria (EYN) Church, Rev. (Dr) Samuel Dali, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for rejecting the Gay Marriage offer dangled before Nigeria by foreign countries, describing the practice as more of cultural and social than constitutional issue.
         
Dali, who was fielding questions from journalists at the weekend in Jos said, “Buhari is morally right in denouncing the practice because Nigeria has its own practice, coupled with the fact that it is a religious country comprising Christians and Muslims, who hold the same view about gay marriage, using the holy scriptures of the Bible and the Quran.
         
According to him, “The President is right to deny it because it will not be applicable to our culture. The people of God do not accept the same sex marriage as a normal practice because it will not be relevant and applicable to our culture. So, we cannot accept it because we are in relationship with the outsiders. They themselves have their own culture. We cannot directly impose the culture of other culture immediately on our own culture because it will have a disastrous implication if we accept it like that.”
         
Dali, who just returned from overseas, said that outsiders have different opinions about Nigeria in different ways.