CHRISTIAN Welfare Initiative (CWI), a political arm of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has expressed sadness and utmost concern over what it called the marginalisation of the South Western part of Nigeria by the Goodluck Jonathan administration.
In a statement in Lagos yesterday signed by the National President, Archbishop Magnus Adeyemi Atilade, the CWI, said: “When we studied the figure of last presidential election in 2011 region by region, the South-West region overwhelmingly voted for President Jonathan. In fact, Jonathan won in five states of South-West convincingly and in Osun State, he was placed second with a little margin above Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN’s) candidate.”
“With the analysis at our disposal, we are not happy with this marginalisation and we say without mincing words that the marginalisation is very unfair and uncalled for. We call that this anomaly should be corrected now for equity, oneness of Nigeria and fair play. President Jonathan should treat the matter with the urgency it deserves,” the Christian Welfare Initiative stated.
It restated its earlier call on Lagosians that a Christian should be the next governor of the state come 2015 in the interest of justice and fair play, recalling that all the civilian governors who ruled Lagos State since its creation were Muslims, including Alhaji Lateef Jakande, Bola Tinubu and Babatunde Raji Fashola, the incumbent governor.
The CWI also used the medium to call on the security agencies to checkmate the unwarranted killing of Nigeria farmers by the nomadic cattle herdsmen, who migrated from the Niger Republic to Nigeria. It called on the Federal and state governments to create ranches in the northern states for the herdsmen and stop them from coming to the southern states to destroy private farms.
The CWI also urged the President to call the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, to order in his unguided utterances. “Let him face his national assignment as head of CBN or resign his appointment and join politics”, it stated
By Adeniyi Adunola
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