Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has raised the alarm that
the coming election will either make or break Nigeria.
This is just as he warned that politicians may wreck the
country if religious leaders are not watchful.
He, therefore, appealed to religious leaders in the country
to stop those he described as bad politicians from destroying the country.
Obasanjo spoke, on Wednesday, when the new President of the
Christian Association of Nigeria, Daniel Okoh, paid him a courtesy visit at his
Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library Penthouse residence in Abeokuta, Ogun
State capital.
He warned that if politicians with no fear of God are
allowed to have their way, the entire country would regret it.
According to a statement made available to journalists by
his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, the former president requested that Nigerian
politicians should be made more responsible by the country’s religious leaders.
The statement quoted him as saying, “The next election, if
we do not watch it, it may make or break Nigeria. I pray that it will make
Nigeria.
“For having both the Sultan of Sokoto and the CAN leader
already on the same page, maybe our politicians will listen, and if our
politicians don’t listen, maybe our people will listen.”
Obasanjo said Nigerians must watch it so that politicians do
not wreck the country.
He added, “If you stand on the truth, you stand for justice
and equity, it is then the politicians will not be able to mess us around and I
will say it with all sense of responsibility now if we do not watch it, the
politicians will wreck this country and we will all regret it.
“Where can we look for salvation? That is where you, religious
leaders, have a significant role to play.
“I think it’s the mistake of the past that we say politics
is not for the righteous. Now, if we take the righteous away from politics, and
we leave politics to the unrighteous, the unrighteous will smear the righteous
with the unrighteousness that they will carry into politics and will have
nowhere to go.”
Okoh told Obasanjo that the Nigerian Inter-Religious
Council, at its recent meeting in Lagos, resolved not to leave the political
space for politicians.
He said, “The council has resolved not to leave the
political space to the politicians, that the religious leaders must get
involved, not to be partisan, but must give leadership to make sure that the
values of our religion are brought to the space to help us to live in peace and
work for the unity of the nation, including fighting for justice.”
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