A former Catholic Archibishop of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, on Thursday said the present government in Nigeria is clueless.

Okogie said that the country needed an urgent rescue from what he described as “imminent brink of irredeemable destruction.”

The cleric therefore called on all Nigerians to wake up from their slumber and face the reality by electing into the position of leadership only persons “who know what to do.”

He added that effort must be made to educate the average Nigerian to choose their leader based on capability and not on the basis of ethnic or religious affiliations.

Okogie spoke in Lagos at the 11th edition of the Gani Fawehinmi Annual Lecture/Symposium, where he was the chairman of the occasion.

He decried the present prevalent insecurity in the country and the nation’s economic woes.

Okogie said, “There is extra urgency to rescue Nigeria. This is the time when every right thinking Nigerian must pray to hate the present situation strong enough such as to desire the fortitude to act right.

“This time does not allow for indifference. All must rise to save Nigeria from the brink of irredeemable destruction. This is the time we must play politics of the best, for the best position, in order to guarantee the best for our nation. Let only those with the fear of God and love of their neighbours lead Nigeria; only those who know what to do should sit at the helms of affairs. Enough of mediocrity, enough of failures, enough of nepotism, enough of ethnicity.”

Okogie, while describing the late Fawehinmi, a human rights lawyer, as courageous, principled, selfless and a detribalised statesman, said he was sure that Fawehinmi was now restless in his grave at the present state of the nation.

Another person in position to speak confirms it. Gej out, GMB in.

Sai Buhari.
Change 2015.


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Our Christian religious leaders are beginning to speak out the truth except for that follow-follow 50cent wannabe...Is he even a religious leader??

I think we all av agreed that change is inevitable... Nigerians we are just tired doing the same thing with d same method and we still expect a change..let try something new.

Clerics are speaking the words of wisdom, hope fellow Nigerians would hearken to them.

Seems the bishops are in sync with most of the laity