The All Progressives Congress (APC) has cautioned the Deeper Life Bible
Church and its General Superintendant, Pastor William Kumuyi, not to
mislead Nigerians. Kumuyi, who was represented by the Delta State
overseer of the church, Senior Pastor Obinna Nkemjika, at a media
briefing in Asaba, had posited that a cleric, who involved himself in
political activities, had engaged in mundane things and lack the vision
for his pastoral calling. Such cleric, Kumuyi continued, may not be too far from the combination of the presidential candidates of the
All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari, and Pastor Yemi Osinbajo in the forthcoming general elections.But
the Delta State chapter of the APC had disagreed with the church that
the people would not be liberated from the shackles of oppression if
anointed men of God do not take up the mantle of leadership, urging the
church not to deceive Christians. State Publicity Secretary of
the party, Isaac Adaka Adakpo, in an interview.
maintained that the era
has come for politics to be Christianised, maintaining that Christians
have no reason to complain if the ungodly ones find their ways into the
helms of affairs because they were afforded the same opportunity. He
said: “Christians should become politicians, take chieftaincy titles
and become kings because if you reject politics as a Christian and say
it is ungodly, then the ungodly people take over and you do not have to
complain. We need to Christianise politics.”
Adakpo, in a veiled
reply, said the country is currently sinking low amidst the fallen oil
price and depreciating currency because the affairs of the nation lie in
the hands of clueless leaders, who, he said, “have no fear of God.
He urged Christians, especially clerics, who are already politicking, to get their acts together if Nigeria must be liberated.“It is imperative, therefore, for those seeking political power among them in the upcoming general elections to sit-up.“That
is why we are calling for change, which is the more reason why
Nigerians must, for uprightness, vote out on March 28 and April 11 the
looters of our common destiny,” he emphasized.
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