The Freedom Party of Nigeria (FPN) on Sunday criticised the threat by the British government to withdraw financial assistance to the country for prohibiting same sex marriage.
The Senate had on Nov. 29, passed a bill prohibiting the same sex marriage in Nigeria.
Chief Frank Ohwofa, National Chairman of the party, made the condemnation in an interview in Abuja on Sunday.
Ohwofa said the threat was a sad one, especially as it bordered on the issue of same sex marriage.
According to him, Nigerian people are not known to be gays and if you go into research, 99.9 per cent of Nigerians will not support gay marriage.
“If you examine closely things like this are taboo to our people and it beats our imaginations that foreign nations will want to impose their way of life on other nations.
“We are really saddened by British comments about how people have chosen their way of life.
“We must give kudos to the Senate for doing what is right as the representatives of the people,’’.
The national chairman advised that British Government to face issues that were of a global interest, nothing that gay marriage should not be something to dwell on.
He commended the House of Representatives for not supporting the planned withdrawal of fuel subsidy by the government, saying `they have vindicated our party’s earlier position on the policy’.
According to him, system failure does not mean that people will always be asked to pay for it.
“Our people are already impoverished and we cannot continue to ask them to pay for the system failure in a bid to address the problem.
“We laud the National Assembly for calling for a probe of the petroleum importation in the country.
“The probe will give a clear picture of what is going on in the sector and the perpetrators must be tried by the laws of the land and send to jail accordingly,’’.
On report on privatisation probe, Ohwofa urges the Senate to ensure that the recommendations of the probe panel should not be swept under the carpet.
He further advised that the probe should not be a rubber stamp probe, adding that the report should be forwarded to the EFCC for onward prosecution.
“I advised that this particular report should not be a rubber stamp probe and the Senate should forward the report to the EFCC for thorough investigation onward prosecution of those who sold our national assets below it capital value.
“Those that will be identified as having sold our national asset at a low price should be tried and sent to jail because that is a financial crime,’’.