PFN Warns Against Introduction Of Sharia Law In South-West

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) Wednesday warned against underhanded attempts by some groups to impose Sharia rule in the country’s southwest through the Senate’s ongoing constitutional review.

The Christian organization cautioned the Senate not to give in to such agitation, which it claims has the potential to further plunge the country into a theological crisis.

Instead, according to a statement from the PFN President’s Media Office, Bishop Francis Wale Oke, the country’s politicians should focus their efforts on resolving the country’s rising challenges, particularly those involving the security of people’s lives and property.

“The problems confronting the nation are enormous than wanting to create more. Sharia law is alien to our culture of religious existence in the SouthWest. As such, nobody should through any subterfuge bring it in to cause the crisis.”

According to the body, the introduction of such law into SouthWest would aim at pitching the Christians against their Muslim counterparts, saying: “We want to strongly warn the Senate and those behind this plan to unsettle the peace being enjoyed in this country to desist before it is too late. Don’t instigate religious crisis in the SouthWest, as this could further threaten the fragile peace of the country.

“The secularity of our existence, which is devoid of any religious upheaval, should not be tampered with under whatever guise. We shall resist this by every legal means at our disposal.

“Without the Sharia, we have always lived peacefully with our Muslim brothers. We know that this is the handiwork of those who are hell-bent on unsettling the country at all costs. But the good news is that: They have failed. As far as we are concerned, the proposal won’t fly and can never fly. It is dead on arrival.”

Meanwhile, the Christian organisation has calmed the frayed nerves of its members who appeared agitated over the development and have been bombarding the body’s leadership with inquiries, assuring that their interest would always be protected.

It implored them to always comport themselves by not taking laws into their hands, but make peaceful co-existence their watchword.