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Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by fergie001: 11:25am On May 27, 2019 |
The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, has lamented that Nigerians are getting poorer and having a feeling of hopelessness under the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. He urged the President to change his style of leadership if Nigeria must recover from its current social-economic crisis. Onaiyekan, who stood in for the President, Catholic Bishops Conference, Archbishop Augustine Akubeze, stated this while delivering a message at the inter-denominational church service for the 2019 presidential inauguration ceremony at the National Christian Centre, Abuja over the weekend. Speaking on the theme: “Let us chose life, not death,” Onaiyekan said it was expected that the blame game by the administration was over, adding that, “As we embrace a new term of government, it should be for us a new opportunity to change ways and review habits of governance, for a better Nigeria. ‘’We can and we should do this, God has endowed us with resources to achieve this, resources that we, unfortunately, turn into curses. “The blame game of pointing accusing fingers at others will not carry us far. For a positive change to take place, we must all be ready for a sincere change of heart, from the lowest to highest, but especially at the highest levels. Empty boast and barefaced denials of the realities around us cannot build the nation. “At this moment, we should do well to acknowledge our failure to do things the right way. Here, the words of the Psalmist should challenge each of us. “The truth is that our nation is not in a state for us to rejoice. The ranks of the poor are swelling by the day, hopeless and helpless, as they watch in frustration the affluence of the very few cruising in a different world. Such wide social economic disparity has led to anger, tension, violence and outright criminality in the land. All is not well. But all is not lost either. “Again, here we must tell the truth. For too long, we have been seeing what seems to be a policy of polarisation of the nation along primordial fault lines of ethnicity and religion. The result is that we have been indulging in the risky game of ’dancing on the brink of chaos’. “We do not know for how long we can continue to get away with this. But the handwriting on the wall is quite clear for all who cared to see. It is sad that no condition is permanent: certainly not the present state of our nation. “Our ethnic diversity is God’s will and gift that we ought to appreciate and celebrate. We should beware of those who seek to manipulate this in a game of divide and rule, for selfish interests. “In our emerging global world, we should be building on our long experience of living together across ethnic lines, if we are not to allow ourselves to be left behind in our fast developing modern world. “We are living in a world where many are abandoning faith in God, at great cost to humanity now and in the future. We do well to commend ourselves for our generally high level and of religious fervor. ‘’But if this is to translate into a righteous nation, we must all seek the will of God for good human relations. This cuts across our religious differences and affiliations. Religion is good, but not enough. “Religion evokes a strong emotions that ought to be deployed for solving the ills of our nation, not compound them. Those who manipulate religion for their selfish political interest end up destroying religion and harming the nation. Our constitution is not perfect. “But its basic provisions about freedom of religion are valid and must be scrupulously respected by all, especially by those who control state instruments of coercion,” said the Archbishop. https://dailypost.ng/2019/05/27/second-term-nigerians-getting-poorer-change-leadership-style-archbishop-onaiyekan-tells-buhari/ 5 Likes |
Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by Nobody: 11:43am On May 27, 2019 |
this man that use to be vocal during Jonathan administration, has now become a seasonal speaker 16 Likes |
Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by baliyubla: 11:44am On May 27, 2019 |
The Cardinal should know better naa. The dullard cannot give what he doesn’t have. He’s just an incompetent Lifeless dunce. Next level 98% loading. 52 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by dokyOloye: 11:46am On May 27, 2019 |
Onaiyekan is an iPad yewt(from the stables of nairaland resident zombies) 7 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by naijaguy123456(m): 1:35pm On May 27, 2019 |
Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by Nobody: 1:36pm On May 27, 2019 |
He shud make it worse. They voted for him 6 Likes |
Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by AngelicBeing: 1:36pm On May 27, 2019 |
Hmmmm
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Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by Iyajelili(f): 1:36pm On May 27, 2019 |
Zombies are coming for you sir 16 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by Elexdallas(m): 1:37pm On May 27, 2019 |
Ipob yoot. Lol. Ndi ara 2 Likes |
Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by kaen1317: 1:39pm On May 27, 2019 |
how can the entire security structure of this country be in the hands of people from the same region and religion? 6 Likes |
Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by mojimuibi16: 1:40pm On May 27, 2019 |
True talk wish this message can be delivered o May 29 |
Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by kaen1317: 1:40pm On May 27, 2019 |
Buhari like an astute politician is merely exploiting the disunity in the south to have his way. 4 Likes |
Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by remababy(f): 1:41pm On May 27, 2019 |
Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by ClearFlair: 1:41pm On May 27, 2019 |
Nigerians are poorer because of PDP. PDP completely ruined Nigeria and left a skeleton of a country for Buhari to repair. Thank God we are making progress 4 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by Trueigbo: 1:42pm On May 27, 2019 |
Oma307: Old age |
Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by NaijaMutant(f): 1:42pm On May 27, 2019 |
Watch the poorest of the poor masses from the west insult this man for trying to liberate them from perpetual suffering We are in an era where the TRUTH has become scarce. 17 Likes |
Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by NaijaMutant(f): 1:43pm On May 27, 2019 |
ClearFlair: Its PDP that needs to change it's leadership style then 11 Likes |
Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by emeejinsm: 1:44pm On May 27, 2019 |
You mean the Nigerian's that voted for him the second time Them never begin poor self We are entering next level this very week 2 Likes |
Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by 35824L: 1:44pm On May 27, 2019 |
If Nigerians wanted change, PMB would have been voted out. Nigerians love our president, despite how noisy wailers choose to wail. |
Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by Stalwert: 1:45pm On May 27, 2019 |
Free money will not be in circulation, Nigerian elites should change their dependence on government way of life 1 Like |
Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by kelly72: 1:46pm On May 27, 2019 |
The main reason millions of people choose to remain Catholics or at least in Orthodox churches. To you Cardinal Onaiyekan, my respects. Ditto to Bishop Oyedepo and a few others not sucked in by bigoted politcs. 11 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by Nobody: 2:00pm On May 27, 2019 |
spot-on!... the redundant coupist /satanic sadist is the worst thing I ever wasted my vote on in 2015! the poverty harbinger /pauperiser is mentally and physically unfit to move the shithole forward. #you cannot give what you don't have. 4 Likes |
Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by Nobody: 2:04pm On May 27, 2019 |
Trueigbo:it could be true but I love seeing the man speaking 1 Like |
Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by Nobody: 2:07pm On May 27, 2019 |
NaijaMutant:don't be surprised if the guy you quoted don't live in Nigeria 1 Like |
Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by oluwaahmed: 2:08pm On May 27, 2019 |
I know that Archbishop well he's an undercover member of IPOB. #may30 we remember |
Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by zakari247(m): 2:10pm On May 27, 2019 |
seriously as a Muslim I just respect Catholic leaders all those Orthodox church leaders when ever they speak. always composed, truthful, and dwell not much on materialism as they speak unlike the yahoo yahoo pastors of all those American denominations they call paint coaster or na Pentecostal self. pastors go dey do fashion, comedy, love story, dance like club people inside church tori oluwn hmmm. 5 Likes |
Re: Change Your Leadership Style, Nigerians Are Poorer, Onaiyekan Tells Buhari by oluwaahmed: 2:16pm On May 27, 2019 |
ClearFlair: U don't mean it So it was PDP that turned nigeria economy from the Largest in Africa to the poverty capital of the world? It was also PDP that took forex from N199/toN360? It was also PDP that took pump price of fuel from N88 to N145? It was also PDP that took INEC from conducting credible elections in 2015 to shambolic ones in 2019? Oponu! 14 Likes 1 Share |
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