By Austin Ajayi, Yola.
The Nigerian President of the Church of the Bernthen in Nigeria also known as Eklesiyyan yanuwa na Nigeria (EYN), Rev. Joel Billi has called on the electorates not to be deterred by the actions of Independent Electoral Commission(INEC) in the last Presidential and National assembly elections but come out en-mass and vote for candidates of their choice in the governorship and state assembly elections t
He called on the INEC Chairman, Prof. Yakubu, and his team to ensure that they do the right thing in the forthcoming Gubernatorial/state assembly elections.
Rev. Billi started this during the centenary press conference of the Church at the EYN headquarters, Kwarhi, in the Hong local government area of Adamawa state on Wednesday.
On the last Presidential election, he said “it is sad that the election was characterized by thuggery, violence, and manipulations of election processes and results by INEC staff, politicians, and some government agents in government”.
” This is not only sad but an insult to the
collective sensibilities of Nigerians, noting that the outcry that greeted the just concluded presidential election attests to the fact the process was manipulated”.
He urged Muhammadu Buhari and the INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu “to truly fight corruption in its entirety fairly and squarely and not pay lip service to it or witch-hunt political opponents”.
While lamenting the economic crisis, economic hardship being experienced due to the cash withdrawal limits, incessant power outages from the national grid, scarcity of petroleum products, and rising inflation.
RE. Joel Billie stressed that ” today under President Buhari’s watch, a liter of petrol goes for N350 and diesel goes for N950. Needless to talk aviation fuel and other essential commodities whose prices have skyrocketed; the government has claimed to be paying subsidies
running into trillions of naira”
This he said “is a clear failure on the part of the ruling elites to provide dividends of democracy it promised Nigerians.”
