Festus Keyamo, spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) presidential campaign council, says pastors should stop dabbling into
politics.
Keyamo said this in reaction to recent comments from the
Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN).
In an interview with TheCable, David Bakare, deputy national
secretary of the PFN, said the group has no affiliation with members of the
Pentecostal Bishops Forum of Northern Nigeria who met with Bola Tinubu, APC
presidential candidate, on Friday.
The PFN also said its opposition to the Muslim-Muslim ticket
of the APC remains unchanged.
Speaking during an interview with Channels Television on
Sunday, Keyamo said the PFN has no right to criticise the decisions of the
ruling party.
“The PFN are not members of our party. They should go and
vote that day,” he said.
“They should not be coming to question the decision of our
party publicly. The purpose of pastors or their duty is to lead people to
heaven not to lead people to [presidential] villa.
“If I go to church
every Sunday, I want to hear the sermon of God and I don’t want to hear the
sermon of politics or who should rule me.
“I want to hear the sermon of God and what will lead me to
salvation and not what to lead me to the villa.”
Asides from the PFN, the Christian Association of Nigeria
(CAN) has also condemned the selection of Kashim Shettima, a Muslim, as the
running mate to Tinubu.
‘NIGERIANS ARE
HUNGRY, NOT BOTHERED ABOUT RELIGION‘
Commenting on the APC’s campaign strategy for the 2023
elections, Keyamo said the party will present to Nigerians the performance of
Tinubu during his time as governor of Lagos.
The minister added that Nigerians are too hungry to be
bothered about issues bordering on religion.
“Nigerians are hungry, they want to see how that hunger will
be addressed, not how their Christian or Muslim faiths will be addressed,” he
said.
“They want to see our policies on agriculture and what
Asiwaju has done before as governor of Lagos state, how he improved Lagos and
how he will bring that kind of posterity to Nigeria as a whole.”
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