Post election violence: Arrest, prosecute Buhari now, CAN tells FG

Sun News

25 April 2011

Post election violence: Arrest, prosecute Buhari now, CAN tells FG

Following the wave of post-presidential violent protest and destruction of lives and property in some parts of the North, the National President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor demanded the immediate arrest and prosecution of former head of state and presidential standard bearer of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari and all identified cohorts before they plunge the nation into another civil war.

Addressing newsmen at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos yesterday, Pastor Oritsejafor warned that the much desired quest for a united Nigeria would remain a mirage if the nation continued to allow persons fanning the embers of disunity to roam the streets of the country.

Pastor Oritsejafor argued that the Federal Government had already blamed the CPC presidential candidate for the post-election mayhem in different parts of the North, amid fears by parents whose children were involved in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme in that part of the country, noting that in a decent society such persons should be made to face the full weight of the law