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Speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, the centre also advised the British parliamentarians to be guided in their assessment of Nigeria, saying any wrong move could lead to a crisis of unimaginable proportion.
In his address, Peter Maidoki, special rapporteur, rubbished the call by some lawmakers for sanction on Nigeria over an “erroneous report of the rising number of killings of Christians by terrorists and state actors”.
According to Maidoki, it is wrong to reduce security threats in Nigeria to the fault lines of religion.
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The special rapporteur said the current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari and his service chiefs have made the most impact in addressing the country’s security challenges and it is unfair to even mutter the idea of sanction.
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ATTACKS ON CHRISTIANS: UK MPs seek sanctions against Nigeria
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By Clifford Ndujihe, Politics Editor
SOME members of United Kingdom House of Lords have asked the UK to take more action against Nigeria to check the rising killings of Christians by terrorists and state actors in parts of the West African country.
In a letter to Dominic Raab, MP, UK’s Foreign Secretary, House of Commons, London, they lamented that the attacks led by Islamist militia continue in northern states and the Middle Belt, with almost-daily reports of killings, mayhem, rape and sexual abuse, abductions and enslavement, mass forced displacement and land-grabs.
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The All Progressive Congress(APC) Chieftain in Ebonyi state, Chief Clement Odah said the reverberations arising from the defection of Governor David Umahi to the Ruling Party has brought South East to the front page of National discourse
Odah maintained that Umahi s defection has awakened the conscience of all the political parties and has altered the direction and substance of political permutations in Nigeria as everyone is now talking about the South East and Ndigbo.
Chief Odah who is also the Chairman, Ohaukwu local government area of Ebonyi state made this remarks in a statement he signed and and made available to newsmen in Abakaliki, Ebonyi state capital.
Senator Ayogu Eze, the guber candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC during the 2019 election in Enugu State has hinted that two more governors from the Southeast are on their way to the party.