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...Open Letter To President Muhammadu Buhari By Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie Dear Mr. President, We read from the media the admonition to religious and traditional rulers at a recent interfaith conference in Abuja .  You advised them to refrain from partisan politics so as not to lose the esteem people have for them. Your admonition was in order, and for this you deserve commendation.  Religious and traditional rulers should be agents of unity and reconciliation especially in this era of dangerously divisive politics heightened by the incivility that comes with every election season in Nigeria .  Religious and traditional rulers are like parents who should unite and not divide their families.  However, the merits of your admonition should not make the discerning lose sight of some related issues. Mr. President, we are in danger in Nigeria today because politics is separated from morality.  Instead of working for the common good our politicians, with very fe...

By  Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie “Beware the Ides of March ,” said the soothsayer to Julius Caesar in William Shakespeare’s famous play  Julius Caesar . In those words, Caesar was given an alert about his imminent assassination in the hands of Roman politicians, among whom was his friend Brutus. Approaching another year of elections, this admonition has become frightfully pertinent. *Cardinal Okogie For what is being witnessed looks like a reenactment of the Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. In this reenactment, Julius Caesar would represent Nigeria , the Roman politicians who plotted his assassination would represent the average Nigerian politician, with Brutus, the politician pretending to be Caesar’s friend, representing politicians who, in their diabolically deadly intrigues, pretend to love Nigeria , but are actually plotting her descent into bloody disintegration. While we have a spiritual obligation to pray the good Lord, whose mighty arm scatters the prou...