The Catholic Bishop Emeritus of Abuja Archdiocese, John Cardinal Onaiyekan has stated that the lots really feel the direct affect of rigged elections, not the politicians.
That is simply because the clergy joined within the name for a reside broadcast of the Presidential Election Tribunal, noting that the voters must comply with up on how their votes are being defended.
Talking with journalists after Mass to mark the tip of this 12 months’s 57th World Communication Week, Cardinal Onaiyekan admonished journalists to offer voice to all teams as they cowl the actions for the Could twenty ninth handover.
Onaiyekan nonetheless, tasked the judges to dispense justice pretty and permit its proceedings to be clear in order that Nigerians can rekindle their hope within the Judiciary.
“As journalists, you do your job, cowl every part, however attempt to hearken to all people and relay it to the general public what is occurring as a result of they need to see.
“Isn’t it why it will be significant the petition earlier than the tribunal, the chance that the tribunal ought to be out there to all of us to have the ability to comply with what is occurring?
“For me, this is essential, one factor that Nigerians don’t appear to grasp is that when elections are rigged. It isn’t the contestants or the politicians who’re worst hit, those that are probably the most impacted is me and also you, however because it stands, we don’t even have locus standi in court docket, we’re the one who ought to be complaining in court docket that my votes have been bastardized, however they inform me I can’t go within the court docket as a result of I didn’t contest the election.
“If we can’t go and make our case, at the very least allow us to see what is occurring inside there. We consider that our honourable judges will do their greatest to make judgements which can be appropriate, they do what is correct, all people will see it and it’ll assist to calm nerves, we are going to know that the suitable factor has been executed, but when they do all these by some means like a secret assembly, even when they did the suitable factor, we are going to say who is aware of what they stated.
“So, it’s within the curiosity of the judiciary to permit this factor to be executed. All these points that there are witnesses whose witnesses should not meant to be made public, for goodness sake, what are they hiding? When you have something that folks shouldn’t know, you shouldn’t be saying it.
“I’m praying that the honourable Justices will discover a approach though they haven’t been doing it earlier than however they need to be able to do it now, it have reached a stage in Nigeria that we now have to be doing issues we now have not been doing earlier than, as a result of if we now have been doing issues the way in which we now have been doing it earlier than, then it means we would like issues to proceed the way in which the way in which it has been taking place, and we see it has not been serving to us, we should boldly take new steps and settle for new issues”, Onaiyekan acknowledged.
In his Homily, the Nationwide Director of Social Communications, on the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, Reverend Father Michael Umoh, stated as a result of the Church is an extension of the mission of Christ, that’s the reason it’s vital communication.
He stated Jesus may solely report back to the Father on the success of his mission of exhibiting the Father to the world as a result of he was efficient in his communication fashion.
“It isn’t sufficient to speak, additionally it is as vital that we talk successfully.
“Pope Paul 6 was conscious of this nice want, thus in 1967, he established the World Communication Day Celebration as an annual occasion throughout which Catholics everywhere in the world mirror on a theme which focuses on media and communication. Since then, 57 years now, successive Popes have maintained the custom”, he stated.
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