The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has dismissed comments attributed to the National Christian Elders Forum on the conviction of Justice Walter Onnoghen by the Code of Conduct Tribunal as an embarrassment to Christendom.
The group said the “infractions the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria was found guilty of were not done on behalf of Nigerian Christians”.
BMO claimed that Onnoghen’s conviction was a jihad against Christianity amounts to an insult to all Christians.
“It is a reprehensible attempt by a senior citizen, ostensibly on behalf of other elder statesmen of his ilk, to make it look like Christianity was the target of the conviction when it was clear that the law was followed to the letter.
“Where were the members of this amorphous group when the out-going CJN put up all sorts of obstacles to frustrate the system, including suspending the statutory meeting of the National Judicial Council (NJC) before his suspension from office by President Muhammadu Buhari on the basis of a valid CCT order paved way for the NJC to take up the matter?
BMO urged Nigerian Christians not to be “conned by a group of political elites who have never seen anything good in the Buhari administration and are always looking at playing divisive politics”.