Cardinal Onaiyekan urge Nigerians to unite against divisive elements

Onaiyekan, the Cardinal Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja, gave the exhortation in Makurdi at the composition mass for Bishop Athanasius Usuh held at the IBB Square. John Cardinal Onaiyekan on Friday prompted Nigerians to join against divisive components that he asserted were endeavoring to tear the nation apart.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Usuh was the Bishop Emeritus of the Catholic bishopric of Makurdi, Benue until a few years back. The prelate said that it was vital for the general population to influence on the acts of kindness of the late religious administrator in joining the general population of the North-Central Nigeria through evangelism and foundation of schools.

He said that Usuh's episcopacy was described by caring support of the general population paying little heed to his wellbeing limitations. The cardinal said the perished religious administrator advanced peace and the solidarity among Nigerians through the administrations he rendered to the general population under his biblical consideration. He spoke to Nigerians not to underestimate the overarching peace in the nation by revoking all types of religious obsession and uncovering those advancing them. He said the war against defilement was vital and needed to proceed for peace to rule in the nation. "We should end all types of religious pluralism and expel all that appears to shred us." Onaiyekan depicted Usuh as "a resolute messenger and a saint of the Christian confidence". He said the late religious administrator emeritus directed the biggest see in the nation then; extending from Benue to the city entryways of Abuja through the Eastern outskirts of Cameroon.

The cardinal said that it was through Usuh's eager endeavors that the wards of Lafia, Otukpo, Gboko and Katsina-Ala were cut out of the domain gave to him by his antecedent, the late Bishop Donald Murray. Onaiyekan perusing from 2 Timothy 4:7 said of Usuh, "He battled a decent battle, completed the race and stayed loyal". NAN reports that the Apostolic Nuncio to Nigeria, Archbishop Augustine Kasujja, was the main celebrant at the memorial mass where no less than 1,000 Catholic diocesans and clerics concelebrated. They were joined by dignitaries of chapel and state to offer petitions for the rest of the spirit of the religious administrator amid the memorial mass.

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