The Executive Secretary/CEO Caritas Nigeria and National Director, Church and Society Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria Durumi, Abuja, Dr. Uchechukwu Obodoechina, told newsmen on Sunday in Abuja that the Caritas Nigeria and her JDPC Partners in the 56 Dioceses across the 36 states of the Federation, including the FCT rejected all justification for the bill.
We better not treat it as a distraction but we should give it all the attention needed in opposing & seeing it to the trash can. Else, they will pass it, & the hand that is too feeble to sign the passed amended electoral bill is waiting & be swift & steady to sign the hatespeech
These priests read the holy Bible with more than 56 books and over a thousand chapters; before talking to the public have they read the bill? Have they been consumed with so much hatred?
The Church of Christ has said it all!!
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