By Ishola Oludare Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said the 2023 elections might make or break the nation. Obasanjo also...
By Ishola Oludare
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said the 2023
elections might make or break the nation.
Obasanjo also told leaders of the various religions in
Nigeria not to allow politicians wreck Nigeria, saying the entire country would
regret it if such is allowed.
Obasanjo stated this when the new President of the Christian
Association of Nigeria (CAN), Most Reverend Daniel Okoh, visited him at his
Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) Penthouse residence, Abeokuta,
Ogun State.
In a statement Wednesday by his Media Aide, Kehinde
Akinyemi, Obasanjo pleaded that politicians should be made more responsible by
religious leaders.
“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,”
Obasanjo said, adding that “if we do not watch it, the politicians will wreck
this country and we’ll all regret it.”
The former President wondered if there is anywhere else the
nation can look for salvation, if not from God through the religious leaders.
Obasanjo described as a mistake of the past, especially in
Christendom, claims that ‘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,” he said.
Obasanjo said the failure to be careful with the 2023
elections may break Nigeria.
“And in the next election, if we do not watch it, it may
make or break Nigeria. And I pray that it will make Nigeria,” Obasanjo was
quoted as saying.
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