The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has warned of the grave consequences of marginalising Christians in the scheme of leadership of the Executive Arm of Government; Legislature and the Judiciary in the unfolding democratic dispensation marking the second and final tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.

The rights group warned that the plot to undermine national unity by ensuring that only Moslems head all the branches of the central government started when President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration instigated the kangaroo trial resulting in the removal of Justice Walter Onnoghen, the only Christian to have held the position of Chief Justice of Nigeria in 30 years over, some phantom and substantially forged allegations.

“This exclusion will mark the end of religious harmony in Nigeria and may result in anarchy and doom unless political stakeholders take measures to stave off the building up of mutual distrusts.”

In a statement issued on Sunday June 9, 2019 from the venue of a high wired lobby for the selection of the next Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives in Abuja, HURIWA expressed consternation and apprehension that the exclusion of Christians from headship of any of the three constitutional arms of government at the center offends section 42 of the constitution which outlaws discrimination and also constitute a gross infringements of the constitutionally guaranteed provisions on the Federal Character Principles enshrined in the highest laws of Nigeria.

HURIWA, in the statement through its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel, and the National Media Affairs Director, Miss Zainab Yusuf, has prayed President Muhammadu Buhari and all political stakeholders to save Nigeria from sliding into a state of mass distrust because if one of the largest constituents of Nigeria, being Christians, are excluded from the headship of the three arms of government, it may not portend well for national peace, unity, and inter religious harmony that are essential for sustenance of constitutional democracy.

The rights group cited the relevant section of the Nigerian Constitution that speaks against the systematic exclusion of Christians in the political schemes of leadership as is about to happen.

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