BY VICTORIA OJEME

ABUJA—Ahead of the 2015 general election, the Parish priest of St Donald Catholic Church, Rev Fr, Sam Tumba, has blamed politicians for security challenges in the country. Fr Tumba made this known in a chat with Vanguard reporter yesterday in Abuja.

He said: “Security challenges have always been there, we have always gone through crises, people are always dying, people are dying not necessary as a result of insurgents, people are dying as a result of political differences, “The only thing that will change the situation is when we begin to think collectively and put our collective interest first not about what the other person is saying or else the security challenge will remain as long as we are not thinking collectively, it is time our national interest takes precedent over our personal greed.

“Nigerians should continue to work for peace, collective responsibility, building bridges across the nation and across the region and we must avoid anything that will make us to be regional people but nationalist, we must be thinking Nigeria not state, local government, ethnic region.”