Wike insists Onaiyekan was partisan in 2023 election
Wike argued that religious leaders needed to show more balance in their public commentary, stating that one-sided criticism of government, without any acknowledgement of its achievements, would inevitably be read as political.
By Omeiza Ajayi Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has said the Archbishop Emeritus of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, was not neutral during the 2023 general election, dismissing suggestions that the cleric’s recent criticisms of the Presidency were impartial.
Pressed on the claim that the bishops’ position was non-partisan, Wike rejected the argument, pointing to what he described as open political alignment by religious leaders during the last presidential poll.
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