2015 POLLS: Borno declares a day public holiday for Buhari

The Borno State government has declared Monday (today) a work-free-day
for the visit of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate,
Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) to the state.
Secretary to the state government, Alhaji Ahmed Jidda, announced this
on Sunday in a statement in Maiduguri, the state capital.
Jidda said that the public holiday would enable residents of the state
to receive Buhari during his campaign rally.
The statement read, "The Borno State Government has declared Monday as
a work-free day. The declaration is to enable the people of the state
welcome the APC presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, who
will arrive Maiduguri on a campaign visit on Monday.
"Governor Kashim Shettima has enjoined all Borno residents to come out
en mass and line up the streets to welcome the Peoples' General."
Meanwhile, the National Christian Elders Forum on Sunday dissociated
itself from the purported endorsement of Buhari by the Northern
Christian Leaders Eagle-Eye Forum, led by one Pastor Aminchi Habu.
The Secretary of NCEF, Pastor 'Bosun Emmanuel, in a statement issued
in Abuja, advised Christians "to resist the temptation of putting
personal interests above the interests of the Lord Jesus Christ,
because such compromise has terrible eternal consequences."
Emmanuel also called on politicians "to put the interest of the nation
first in all forms of electioneering campaign and desist from acts
that could be interpreted to imply desperate manipulation of the
electorate for political power."
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His statement partly read, "It has come to the notice of the NCEF that
an unaccredited group, claiming Northern Christians Leaders Eagle
Eye-Forum, purportedly on Thursday February 12, 2015, in Abuja,
adopted the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress in
the forthcoming elections, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).
"The National Christian Elders Forum wishes to state clearly that the
only Northern Elders Forum accredited and recognised by the Christians
Association of Nigeria is the Northern States Christian Elders Forum.
"The Elders Forum hereby declares that neither CAN, NOSCEF nor the
NCEF at any time supported or approved of the action of this
unaccredited group. The National Christian Elders Forum wishes to
admonish Christian leaders in Nigeria to resist the temptation of
putting personal interests above the interests of the Lord Jesus
Christ, because such compromise has terrible eternal consequences.
"The Elders Forum also advises politicians to put the interest of the
nation first in all forms of electioneering campaign and desist from
acts that could be interpreted to imply desperate manipulation of the
electorate for political power."
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