“Nigerians be patient with Buhari, if Nigerians push things will worsen” - Nicholas Okoh

According to Nicholas Okoh, the incoming administration should be given a year to study the situation and set the agenda.

“Nigerians should be patient with Buhari, otherwise, he will worsen things if Nigerians push him to the wall and rush him into action. Let us give him a year to study the situation and set the agenda properly. It is difficult to fix Nigeria within six months.

“You can’t even fix a country within four years. Buhari has to take pain in making approvals; otherwise Nigerians will cause trouble for him. So Nigerians should pray for him and be patient with him,” Okoh said.

The cleric denied the allegation by Musa Dikwa, the executive director of the Voice of Northern Christian Movement, that Christian leaders were offered N7bn by the Presidency to campaign for the re-election of Goodluck Jonathan in the general elections. Okoh stressed that the allegations, which came when the two major political parties were competing with each other, “should be taken with a pinch of salt.”

The cleric further revealed that the Federal Government had mandated the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigerian and Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs in Nigeria to plan measures for the regulation and ownership of churches and mosques in the country.

Oduah also endorsed the initiative that churches should pay taxes if they have an agency that generates income.

Earlier this year the primate of Anglican Church called on president-elect to stop giving attention to political defectors, describing them as people who are not to be trusted.

According to him, although Buhari’s administration is an incoming one, it has already set its programmes therefore the one who needs advice is not the new government but Nigerians.

Some days back Dr. Stephen Mamza, the Catholic Bishop of Yola Diocese, also urged the president-elect not to consider nominating defectors as ministers in the incoming administration.