Presidential Candidate of the ADC Dr Obadiah Mailafia Attends an Inter-Party Forum on Religious Dialogue




On the afternoon of Monday 26 November the Atiku Campaign Organisation invited the African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate Dr Obadiah Mailafia to an inter-party forum discussion on Religious Dialogue as we prepare for the 2019 elections. In his own contributions Dr Mailafia urged all political party candidates to eschew bitterness and to avoid ethno-religious bigotry in the upcoming elections. He emphasised that Muslims and Christians are brothers and that we must work together to build a New Nigeria. He pointed out that the ADC will embrace all Nigerians and will work to fight the common ills that we face: poverty, unemployment, illiteracy and disease. He said that as a Christian, his duty is to love all people and to fight for all oppressed Nigerians who suffer injustice and marginalisation.

Let it be on record that Dr Mailafia honoured an invitation to discuss the issue of religious co-existence with particular reference to the issues affecting Christians. He honoured the invitation out of respect for the CUPP coalition of which both the ADC and PDP are members. Some mischievous characters on social media have been spreading the fake news that Dr. Mailafia's attendance at the forum amounted to an endorsement of Atiku and the PDP. Let it be on record that the ADC candidate did not, by this act of magnanimity, imply that he was by any stretch of the imagination endorsing anyone whatsoever. As a matter of fact, in his speech, Dr Mailafia joked that, after listening to him, he hoped that Atiku and his team will see the light and join the ADC, which he describes as the fastest growing political party in Africa. Forward ever, backward never!

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