BAUCHI – The quick past speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara has upheld the place of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) which dismissed the Muslim ticket of the decision All Progressives Congress (APC).
Dogara expressed that the place of CAN is the place of God, bringing up that embracing a Muslim ticket in a different nation like Nigeria is a recipe for disunity and debacle.
He expressed this on Wednesday at the twelfth General Assembly and Leadership Transition Ceremony and Symposium on the Role of Christian Women and Youths in Politics, coordinated by the Christian Association of Nigeria in Abuja.
“The position taken by CAN isn’t just CAN’ s position, it isn’t just the place of eminent Christian pioneers like Babachir David Lawal, the previous Secretary to the Government of the Federation and numerous other people who have opposed it, it is additionally God’s position since we serve the God of equity, yet our God is additionally noble, our God is the creator of variety, and He needs however various as we may be to met up.
“Thus, CAN’s situation, however much it is an equitable position, the place of us all adoration honorableness, equity, and variety and are attempting to bridle it for the headway of this country.
“Anyone can say everything except in however much the thing we are remaining on is faithful, some other position is wicked. It is possibly you are for uprightness, comprehensiveness, equity or you are against the solidarity of this extraordinary country” he said
Dogara approached ladies and adolescents to copy the existences of Esther and Deborah in the Holy Bible who supported their kin in the midst of public emergency in Israel.
Citing from the book of John 3:3, he contended that main the people who are brought back to life can enter the realm of God and that it is something noble for brought back to life Christians to partake in governmental issues.
Drawing from the story of gifts in the Holy Bible, Hon. Dogara approached Christians to use their singular abilities for the progression of the realm to influence on their networks and social orders as everybody will account before the maker for how they utilized their gifts.
He expressed that to take part in governmental issues doesn’t mean everybody should campaign for elective positions, as ladies and young people can sort out and prepare their networks to take an interest effectively in the popularity based cycle like citizen enrollment, adding that “as Christians, the sacred text says we are the salt and light of the world”.