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    City Blog I don't want a christian as Lagos state governor come 2015-Fashola

    Following the recent call made by the Lagos
    State Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria,
    PFN, for a Christian successor to Governor,
    Babatunde Fashola, in 2015, the latter on
    Monday, condemned the demand, and
    questioned if the christian agitators really
    believed in God?, noting that it is only God
    that can insist.

    The governor made the remark while
    commissioning an inter-faith conference, Tagged:
    "Peace, Religious Harmony and Good Governance:
    Issues and Challenges".
    Fashola posited that the current insecurity issues
    bedeviling the country could be greatly reduced if
    everyone accepted religious harmony.
    "People have said that they want one particular
    governor and I have ask myself two questions -
    the people who said that they want one particular
    governor or said that there must be this
    particular governor, are they still conscious that it
    is an election where a choice has to be made? If
    there are two democrats, they should expect that
    citizens must have a say in who is sworn-in as the
    governor of their state" Fashola said.
    "Secondly; I wonder when I heard those things.
    You can insist, but can you insist that you will be
    alive in the next one hour. I know that things can
    rub off badly, you may be on the wrong side of
    the government policy, but we must trust
    ourselves.
    "We have integrated more than 50 years ago
    rather than toying with what we are doing at the
    moment. The danger is too much, this cloth will
    not tear in one straight line; it will tear in shreds if
    we pull it too far and let us restrain the pull on
    the cloth. It is no longer a new cloth; it is a well
    worn cloth and when a well worn cloth tears, it
    doesn't repair well" he added.
    Fashola who stressed that religion should not be
    the bedrock for choosing his successor, said:
    "Good governance means different things to us. It
    may mean that there are more religion
    institutions of one faith than the other in the
    state; that maybe good governance for some
    people. And for majority, good governance is just
    food, the ability to get a job and provision of social
    amenities. For those people, the faith of the
    governor is never their problem".
    Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN

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