BIG TROUBLE AS OSINBAJO EXPOSE ALLEGED PLANS TO ISLAMIZE NIGERIA, VOWS TO RESIGN – (FULL DETAILS)
BIG
TROUBLE AS OSINBAJO EXPOSE ALLEGED PLANS TO ISLAMIZE NIGERIA, VOWS TO RESIGN –
(FULL DETAILS)
POLITICS
– Latest
trending news report reaching us, disclose how the Nigeria Vice President Yemi
Osinbajo, has vowed to resign his appointment if the recurrent suspected Fulani
Herdsmen killings in Benue and other parts of the Northern Nigeria have a
religious colouration.
Osinbajo
stated this while responding to posers raised by some Christian leaders at the
stakeholders a meeting held at the new Banquet Hall of the Benue State
Government House, Makurdi.
One of
the speakers, the Catholic Bishop of Gboko, His Lordship, Williams Avenya, had
reminded Osinbajo of the then presidential candidate of the All Progressives
Congress, Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign promises that he would not Islamise the
country and would protect the interest of all Nigerians including citizens of minority
ethnic groups if voted into power.
Quoting
Buhari, the bishop said, “My deputy is a Christian and there is no way I will
Islamise Nigeria with many Christians in my team.”
Avenya
noted that the killing of Christians and members of the minority ethnic group
particularly in Benue State had proved that the Federal Government under Buhari
was not living up to these promises.
Facing
Osinbajo, the bishop said, “The point I’m trying to make is that a day is going
to come when you, as the Vice-President, will bear the brunt of that problem of
injustices in our land, especially those perpetrated on smaller ethnic groups
that have no one to fight for them.
“So, as
a Christian person, exonerate yourself from this situation,” the bishop advised
the VP.
Responding,
the Vice President said, “My Lord Bishop, you said you are not a politician, I
am also not a politician. As a matter of fact, I’m also a priest and I’m a
Christian, a born again Christian. Because I’m a born again Christian, my
destiny is not determined by any man but by God who I serve.
“Let me
assure you that under no circumstances, none whatsoever, will I give up my
faith or refuse to stand up for my faith.
“You
can take that to the bank. Even the position that I currently occupy, I did not
ask for it and I’m prepared to leave it at a short notice.
“It
doesn’t mean anything. I became a born again Christian after I became a
professor, a professor of the law of evidence, a professor of proof.
“But
when the Lord Jesus Christ met me, He persuaded me by showing me clearly that
there is such a thing as the evidence of things that are not seen.
“It is
because of the evidence of things that are not seen, it is because you can make
something out of nothing that I stand here today as Vice-President.
“How
possible can anyone say that the killing of women and children doesn’t matter
because he is Vice-President or because he is President? How is that possible?
Certainly, it cannot be for a person who is born again. A renewed mind will
know that there is justice, there is consequence even if there is no justice
here on earth.”
The
Vice-President, while reacting to the issue raised by another speaker, Dr.
Magdalene Dura, that the invasion of the state was an ethnic agenda, said no
one would deliberately kill his own people.
“I do
not accept and I do not believe that there is an agenda. No one will
deliberately kill his own people. No one will do so. But we cannot bring back
the dead but we can make life more bearable for the living.
“This
is why coming here today at the behest of the President is first, to look at
the situation myself, to get a first-hand view of the situation because the
President has mandated me to take this on board and deal with the issues,”
Osinbajo added.
