Buhari meets catholic bishops, says no secret religious agenda

The presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, Muhammadu Buhari, has re-affirmed his stand and commitment to ensure that Nigeria remained a multi-religious state where every individual is free to practice his or her religion of choice without any hindrance.

Buhari, who spoke at an “Episcopal” Town Hall Conversation with representatives of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria in Abuja, stated that although he had been severally and consistently vilified and maligned, he had no personal religious agenda, neither would he support any moves by anybody or group of persons to either Christianise or Islamise Nigeria.

In his speech, titled “One Nation bound in Freedom, Peace, Unity and Love”, Buhari, who was accompanied to the event by his running mate, Pastor Yemi Osinbajo, the DG of the APC Presidential Campaign, Governor Rotimi Amaechi, and a host of other members of the party’s presidential campaign, said he “will not condone any initiative that seeks to promote one religion over the other.”