Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has warned that unless the ‘potholes’ were carefully avoided, the 2023 general election may make the country break up.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned Obasanjo’s Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi noted in a statement issued on Wednesday that the former president said this during the visit of President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Most Reverend Daniel Okoh to his Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library Penthouse residence in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital.
He warned that politicians are capable of wreaking havoc which could make or break the country if the stakeholders fail to prevent such.
‘In the next general election if we do not watch it, it may make or break Nigeria. And I pray that it will make Nigeria.
If you stand on the truth, you stand for justice and equity, it is then that 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.
And 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’ he said.
He also commended the CAN president and the Sultan of Sokoto for their efforts in this respect.
‘I must say, I am impressed with you and the Sultan, who is already singing your praises. You both can make a turnaround. You can work together.
Having both the Sultan of Sokoto and the President of CAN already on the same page, maybe our politicians will listen, and if our politicians don’t listen, maybe our people will listen’ Obasanjo added.
Earlier, the CAN president had commended Obasanjo for his role in making valid contribution to the growth of Christianity in Nigeria.
‘In 1976, you started with the establishment of this association, the CAN and in September 1999, you formed the Inter-Religious Faith Council 1999. In the political sector, you set up the National Political Reform Conference, to which I was privileged to be a delegate, representing the Christian faith. These were the few I could remember as I was planning for this visit’ he said-Team@orientactualmags.com
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