In separate interviews the clerics agreed that “Selling votes to the highest bidder or moneybags is dangerous, and it is against Islam.”
The church is seeking donations from its members to “arrest the situation for the safety of our Prelate and other abductees”.
The association said it was hoping that all the challenges facing Nigeria will be overcome before 2023.
“We solicit credible information from the public toward their rescue, please,” the police in Abia said.
Before his election, the diocese bishop, Williams Avanya, had suspended the priest for his involvement in partisan politics.
The church had invited members of the public to an event where it would share some gift items, including foodstuffs.
The group said any political party that fielded a Christian as its deputy governor would get the bulk of Christian votes in the state.
Explaining his mission in Imo, the revered cleric said he was in the state to decree God’s strength in troubled parts of the country.
The trial of a Kano cleric, Sheikh Abduljabbar Kabara, was on Thursday stalled due to ill health of the judge, Ibrahim Sarki-Yola, of an Upper Shari’a Court, Kano.
“We advise the governments to strategise and bring an end to orgies of killings happening in Nigeria; desperate situations need desperate measures.”
