2015: Sacrifice your ambition, CAC tells Jonathan, others

The Christ Apostolic Church Worldwide  has called on President Goodluck Jonathan and other politicians jostling for the Presidency in 2015, to sacrifice their ambition in the interest of peace and national unity.

President of the church, Pastor Abraham Akinosun, said this at the church’s 2013 Pastors’ Conference on Thursday at the Babalola International Miracle Camp at Ikeji-Arakeji, Osun State.

He said, “Let the message be communicated to all politicians who seek the good of Nigeria, forget 2015, let fresh blood who are less controversial come to power. Let us try fresh and unknown hands in the art of governance.

“What our theme is saying to all politicians who genuinely love Nigeria and who genuinely desire its peace and prosperity is that they should sacrifice their ambition for the sake of peace of this nation.

“If for the purpose of saving mankind, God did not spare His own begotten Son, He expects us all as individuals and groups to drop what is most precious to us in order to allow peace, safety and happiness of others.”

Akinosun noted that the drumbeats of war over the 2015 ambition of President Jonathan by some northern elements and the Niger Delta ex-militants were unnecessary.

He said politicians had left undone what they should be doing, saying that “from the moment they got to power they left governance for politicking.”

The pastor, however, clarified that Jonathan could only contest for The Presidency in 2015 if he was certain that God wanted him to remain in power.

He said if his ambition would plunge the country into crisis, then he should choose the option of sacrificing his ambition.

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3 killed, others injured as building collapses in Lagos

By Uju Mbanusi
A three-storey building at 16, Alli Street, Tinubu, Lagos Island, collapse on Wednesday night, killing three of its occupants and injuring many others.
Eyewitnesses told Vanguard that the building collapsed on a bungalow beside it at 10:30pm, adding that two persons were brought out dead in the early hours of yesterday.
The source said that the dismembered remains of the third casualty were picked up later in the day by members of the Lagos State Collapsed Buildings Rescue Team.
It was also learnt that the injured persons were reportedly rushed to the Emergency Unit of the LagosIslandGeneralHospital, where some of them were still receiving treatment.

COLLAPSED — A three-storey building at 15 Ali Street, Tinubu, Lagos collapsed, early yesterday, killing two, with six others injured.
When Vanguard visited the scene, Rescue Team and civil defence team were trying to recover more bodies believed to be trapped in the debris.
Also present were men of Lagos State Civil Defence, and the Lagos State Hospital Emergency teams.
One of the residents, Bisiriyu Oluwaseun Anotu, a 500 Level Business Administration student of the LagosStateUniversity, Ikoyi Campus, who lived on an apartment on the last floor of the building, said “I rushed down only to see what used to be our home in shambles.
“Although we were served notice to vacate the building in August by the Lagos State Government on the ground that the building was not save for habitation, most of us stayed because we had nowhere else to go to, moreover our rent was still running.”
At press time, the whereabouts of the building’s developer, identified as Chief Toulet, was not known.
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