UMC Nigeria urges restraint as court rejects GMCN stay of execution

Resident Bishop of the United Methodist Church Nigeria, Episcopal Area, Ande Emmanuel, has called connected members and supporters of the Church to shun inflammatory statements, intimidation, retaliation and immoderate enactment susceptible of disrupting nationalist bid oregon undermining the church’s witness.

The bishop made the entreaty connected Monday successful Jalingo portion reacting to the ruling of the Federal High Court successful Abuja, which dismissed an exertion for enactment of execution filed by the Incorporated Trustees of the Global Methodist Church Nigeria, GMCN.

Bishop Emmanuel described the judgement arsenic a large affirmation of the church’s lawful continuity, individuality and trusteeship, noting that the determination had further strengthened nationalist assurance successful the independency of the judiciary, the regularisation of instrumentality and law processes successful a antiauthoritarian society.

“We person this result with humility, gratitude to God and heavy respect for the judicial process,” helium said, emphasizing that the ruling should not beryllium interpreted arsenic a ground for triumphalism oregon hostility.

According to the bishop, the play starring to the tribunal judgement was marked by uncertainty, affectional pain, misinformation and organization hostility for galore members, clergy and congregation...