Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s preaching bill has won him few friends in religious circles. The Kaduna state chapter of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has asked the governor to be ready to throw as many as 5,000 pastors behind bars.
Kaduna state PFN chairman, Prof. Femi Ehinmidu, who spoke at a stakeholders’ round-table conference in Kaduna, said the bill spelt danger for his faith.
Punch reports that Ehinmidu told the state government to be ready to jail the over 5,000 pastors in the state’s PFN if the government believed it could muzzle the citizens to pass the bill into law.
He argued that the bill remained a recipe for crisis in the state when passed into law.
Ehinmidu pointed out that unless the government carried out wider consultations among critical stakeholders, the bill, which he claimed started on a faulty note, was bound to fail.
The bill seeks to limit hate messages from the pulpit.
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