Christian journalists attack Muslim group for advising Buhari wrongly

The Nigerian Association of Christian Journalists has advised President Muhammadu Buhari against ignoring the opinions of individuals and other political parties.
The group gave this advice in a statement while reacting to recent comments by the Muslim Rights Concern.
MURIC had asked Buhari to disregard opinions made by the former on the ongoing war against corruption.
The Christian group stated that that MURIC was entitled to its opinions, adding that a situation whereby anyone who opposes the President is considered an enemy is a dangerous trend and not in the best interest of the nation.
The Secretary General of NACJ, Charles Okhai, said, “Our attention is drawn to the statement issued by the Muslim Rights Concern on January 25, 2016 in Premium Times, calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to shun calls for the release of former public officials who are currently undergoing various corruption charges and put a limitation to the rule, while prosecuting looters of public funds. This is barbaric and insulting to our national integrity.
“Recently, the same group reacted to Governor Ayo Fayose’s warning to President Buhari that he should be careful in his decision to probe some military officers published in Leadership newspaper on January 18, 2016. MURIC’s attacks on Fayose is unnecessary, uncalled for, unacceptable and uncivilised.
“The statement, signed by MURIC’s Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, shamefully resulted to direct abuse of the person of Fayose, calling him names. We, hereby, state categorically that if this kind of action is not resisted and curbed, it is capable of taking us back to the ignoble era of Victorian leadership.
“The statement is obviously an outright attack on democracy and we, therefore, call on Nigerians to resist any attempt by any group or individual to reduce very important national issues to mere political interest and religious bigotry.
“Governor Fayose’s warning was a personal opinion and an exercise of freedom of expression under our democratic system of government. Therefore, condemning him for exercising his human right is a direct intimidation, which is capable of derailing the nation’s democratic process because freedom of speech is the hallmark of democracy.
“We feel very disappointed that the MURIC group could allow their overzealous attempt to display their loyalty to President Buhari to becloud their sense of sound judgement at the face of national issues
“People must be allowed to express themselves to have their say and exercise their human right of freedom of expression. That is the only way we can grow our democracy,” NACJ added.
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