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The Borno State government has declared Monday (today) a work-free-day for the visit of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) to the state.
Secretary to the state government, Alhaji Ahmed Jidda, announced this on Sunday in a statement in Maiduguri, the state capital.
Jidda said that the public holiday would enable residents of the state to receive Buhari during his campaign rally.
The statement read, “The Borno State Government has declared Monday as a work-free day. The declaration is to enable the people of the state welcome the APC presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, who will arrive Maiduguri on a campaign visit on Monday.
“Governor Kashim Shettima has enjoined all Borno residents to come out en mass and line up the streets to welcome the Peoples’ General.”
Meanwhile, the National Christian Elders Forum on Sunday dissociated itself from the purported endorsement of Buhari by the Northern Christian Leaders Eagle-Eye Forum, led by one Pastor Aminchi Habu.
The Secretary of NCEF, Pastor ‘Bosun Emmanuel, in a statement issued in Abuja, advised Christians “to resist the temptation of putting personal interests above the interests of the Lord Jesus Christ, because such compromise has terrible eternal consequences.”
Emmanuel also called on politicians “to put the interest of the nation first in all forms of electioneering campaign and desist from acts that could be interpreted to imply desperate manipulation of the electorate for political power.”
His statement partly read, “It has come to the notice of the NCEF that an unaccredited group, claiming Northern Christians Leaders Eagle Eye-Forum, purportedly on Thursday February 12, 2015, in Abuja, adopted the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the forthcoming elections, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).
“The National Christian Elders Forum wishes to state clearly that the only Northern Elders Forum accredited and recognised by the Christians Association of Nigeria is the Northern States Christian Elders Forum.
“The Elders Forum hereby declares that neither CAN, NOSCEF nor the NCEF at any time supported or approved of the action of this unaccredited group. The National Christian Elders Forum wishes to admonish Christian leaders in Nigeria to resist the temptation of putting personal interests above the interests of the Lord Jesus Christ, because such compromise has terrible eternal consequences.
“The Elders Forum also advises politicians to put the interest of the nation first in all forms of electioneering campaign and desist from acts that could be interpreted to imply desperate manipulation of the electorate for political power.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/borno-declares-today-public-holiday-for-buhari/

Nigerians mentality. Wasting another productive day, imagine someone waiting for bail.

Welcom baba.

book governor

I pray for his safety, and the masses that will attend the gathering. I'm so sure that it's gonna be a massive turnout, but how would they be able to identify a Suicide Bomber(s) aiming to kill scores of people?
Oh Lord, protect every life that will attend APC rally in Maiduguri today. And let peace reign henceforth in the troubled States of the Federation (amen).

nzeobi:
Nigerians mentality. Wasting another productive day, imagine someone waiting for bail.

I wonder the kind of country we are, declaring public holiday for a presidential candidate at the expense of the public...SMH

Are you sure that's legal. Declaring a whole day work free just because of campaign rally sounds a bit extreme.

pls is not the coming but the safety that is paramount to us safety first

That place that is not even safe

Daft governor, declaring public holiday so people can gather in substantial amount for bokoboys to do what they do best.

Unless if they know of the activities of the bokoboys sha

No be still this same man give access to BH to kidnapp 200+ virgins?

Buhari=BH

Useless pple. All these years of bokoharam atracks and they refuse to respect the dead with a single holiday. After they'll blame it on GEJ

I don't blame them sha, their father is coming...the father of violence in nigeria.

Fayose did the same thing for the clueless.