Catholic Bishops have asked every enrolled voter to guarantee that they are furnished with voter's card and reject the illicit practices of offering and purchasing of votes.
The ministers made the supplication in a report issued toward the finish of the Second Plenary Meeting of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) in Sokoto, held from Sept. 6 to Sept 14.
The report was made accessible to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Friday.
The President of the CBCN, Most Rev. Augustine Akubueze, who marked the report, said that Nigerians ought not be influenced by the different instigations by government officials.
"It is the privilege of Nigerians to completely take an interest in the appointive procedure without terrorizing and savagery.
"We request that the decision of the electorate, once made, be regarded by all. Despite the fact that decisions are insufficient to enthrone great administration, they are a vital stage in that task.
"Except if we get our appointive procedure right, races in Nigeria will just wind up costly corrective activities that legitimize debasement and incompetence,'' the report expressed.
The ministers asked political office holders to realize that they were chosen to give administrations to the whole citizenry, regardless of political, religious or ethnic affiliations.
They denounced savagery and weakness in a few sections of the nation and encouraged the Federal Government to guard the lives and property of each native.
"We unequivocally request that a huge number of our inside dislodged countrymen be come back to their homes and their territory reestablished to them as fast as could reasonably be expected,'' the report expressed.
The ministers additionally asked the Federal Government to anchor the unlimited arrival of Leah Sharibu.
"We exhort the Federal Government to guarantee the protected arrival of the rest of the Chibok young ladies and every other individual in imprisonment.
"We encourage their families to stay cheerful and undaunted in supplications, while guaranteeing them of our petitions also,'' the ministers said.
The priests praised governments at all levels for giving arrangements to national advancement, in the zones of economy, legislative issues, arrangement of social pleasantries and security.
"We persistently urge the lawmakers to establish great laws and repeal terrible ones, to guarantee arrange, security, great lead and shield the Common great.
"We likewise charge the legal not to enable itself to be utilized as an instrument of enslavement, persecution, separation and treachery.
"We take note of that the run of law indicates uniformity of all under the law; looks for the assurance of crucial privileges of nationals; and gatekeepers against manhandle of intensity, the dispatch noted.
The religious administrators encouraged all levels of government to give careful consideration to the yearnings of the youngsters, particularly poor people, inside uprooted, casualties of misuse, vagrants, and transients.
"The Church is particularly mindful that youngsters, with their difficulties and openings, are the eventual fate of the Church as well as the bigger society,'' the pastors noted.
As indicated by the report, with regards to the arrangements of our constitution, in regards to flexibility of religion, we keep on urging all administrations at all levels to regard the privileges of natives to rehearse their religions unhindered.
The priests encouraged religious pioneers to be more dedicated to ensuring every one of those endowed to their peaceful care, particularly the weaker ones.
They exhorted Nigerians to hold hands crosswise over religious, ethnic and political partitions keeping in mind the end goal to fabricate one, joined together and hearty country that all Nigerians would be pleased with.
"We want that common understanding and quiet concurrence turns into a model for the disciples of all religions in the nation.
"This would empower us to by and large form the colossal Nigeria we had always wanted,'' the dispatch expressed.
The clerics approached all Nigerians for their persistent petitions for the country at this vital time.
"Our Lord Jesus Christ showed the intensity of petition amid his natural life. He implored unendingly, particularly, at extremely conclusive and noteworthy snapshots of his life.
"Following his strides, we coordinate that our Church at different levels keep on praying, particularly as we approach the race year,'' the religious administrators said.
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