Buhari Meets With Catholic Bishops In Abuja; Reveals He Doesn’t Have Plans To Islamize Nigeria

All Progressive Congress’ Presidential candidate, Gen.
Buhari and his VP candidate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo met with
some Catholic Bishops in Abuja yesterday February 10th.
During their visit, Buhari took time to assure them that his government when voted into power would not
have any major business with religion as he believed that
government shouldn’t intervene with politics. He vowed that he had no religious agenda that might in
any way affect the peace of the country. Government has no business preferring one
religion to the other. The role of government is to protect
lives and properties of citizens and to respect and protect their
constitutional rights. One critical freedom that every government must strive to protect is the
liberty for citizens to exercise their respective faiths, Christians
and Muslims or others, in a lawful manner without fear or
hindrance and to prosecute those who use religion as an excuse to
destroy homes, schools and places of worship. When governments fail in that duty, they must then
assist in the rebuilding of structures including destroyedBplaces of
worship and giving full restitution for lost property. We, Nigerians, are a religious people, and the
burning of places of worship constitutes one of the vilest forms
of abomination to all those who believe in God. It is the duty
of governments to protect this important sensitivity.
Let me state this categorically, that I, Muhammadu Buhari, as an individual, and as president of this
great country by the grace of God, given the opportunity to serve, have no personal religious agenda. And I will not entertain, consider or promote the religious agenda of
anyone. I will not condone any initiative that seeks to promote one
religion over the other. Neither I, nor my party, or any member of my team has any desire or plan to
Islamize or Christianize Nigeria or support anyone with such intention,
he said.