CHUKA KEN MINISTRY

The Senior Apostolic leader of the realm of Glory international church buildings, Pastor Sam Aiyedogbon, in this interview with stand up tv, monitored by means of our correspondent, SEGUN ADEWOLE, reveals that Christians are mobilising to vote in opposition to the Muslim-Muslim price ticket fielded by way of the All Progressives Congress for the 2023 presidential election

Senior Apostolic leader of the world of Glory international churches, Pastor Sam Aiyedogbon, in an interview with stand up television on Tuesday condemned the decision of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to pick out Senator Kashim Shettima, a fellow Muslim as his going for walks mate.

Aiyedogbon stated that he became traumatised, including that he stands with Christian leaders towards the ticket.

He stated, “I’m a Christian and every Christian leader without delay or in a roundabout way belongs to the Christian affiliation of Nigeria. And if you are in the Pentecostal religion, you belong to the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria. So, wherein they stand is where I stand. Lots greater than that, we’re first and primary human beings, and that i assume the essential principle that God installed place at introduction is appreciate for the honour of each human. I’m human before I belonged to any ethnic institution and faith, and the essential principle for admire for each human, which demands fairness, fairness and sensitivity, has been violated. As a human being, I feel traumatised by way of all that has been taking place. It’s not just a rely of where I stand.”

He lamented that just recently, Nigerians were distracted from real troubles by way of controversies about Tinubu’s certificates and the college he attended.

“I sense without a doubt traumatised. I suppose our flesh pressers are so tactical; they have got mastered the sport of dribbling, manipulation and deception. I suppose this complete component is a strategy to divert attention from the real troubles. They have got now played up politics of identity and exclusion. I think it’s all the same vintage rigmarole, averting the real issues and taking every person without any consideration. So, it’s now not just the sensibility of the Christian network that has been insulted. I dare say, that is like including insult to damage. That is trampling on the electoral cost of the Christian network. This is pronouncing to our face that we don’t be counted, we don’t count and you don’t provide a damn. While you did all of your calculations and balancing, you realised it’s now not handiest that you have to fulfill a particular place of the united states and religion on the expense of equity and justice, you are gambling it up to say that you regard, recognize and adore these people more. How do you want us to sense? You’re trampling on us and while we talk you say we’re being sensational and with primordial sentiment. Who started out this primordial sentiment and sensationalism? It’s the equal politicians,” he said.

Aiyedogbon stated that Nigeria had graduated from a loss of visionary leadership to terrible leadership, including that the u . S . A . Is now at the point of no management.
“it is the cutting-edge President of the ruling party that turned into packaged and offered to us. I’ve stated before that it became nearly like forgery that turned into provided to us. He became packaged and wearing a apparel of a born- once more democrat, pronouncing he will prevent insecurity, he’ll fight corruption, and part of the human beings that packaged him and offered him to us in 2015 is the cutting-edge presidential candidate. We see all the failure; blood has been flowing, both that of Christians, Muslims and others. No person is safe,” he stated.

The clergyman said the politics of identity started out with President Buhari that is why an Islamic identification is being displayed by way of the birthday celebration ahead of the 2023 presidential election.

“It started with all his lopsided appointment. That is the first time inside the records of Nigerian politics that the country wide chairman of the unbiased countrywide Electoral commission will come from the equal religion and location as the President. Even beneath the navy, it wasn’t so. That is the first time you have got a scenario in which the President of the country is a Muslim from the North, the Senate President is a Muslim from the North and the Speaker of the residence of Representatives is a Muslim. So, absolutely everyone is like if we want to matter below the authorities of APC, we must put on the toga of Islamic religion. Is that what you’re telling us? And you are now saying it doesn’t remember what we say and so forth,” he stated.
He persevered, “The legs of religious extremists had been on our necks as Christians and our blood is flowing. You guys simply placed aside the Owo bloodbath and so forth… Catholic priests are being abducted, people are still in captivity, and Christian ladies are abducted and distributed as booty, as means of motivating the terrorists. I don’t know in the event that they take Muslim girls. Who played up politics of faith to the maximum? It’s miles President Muhammadu Buhari. The whole lot rises and falls with management. In my village, they are saying every folklore is on the tortoise’s head. The President is the tortoise on this be counted. His loss of leadership, stability and sensitivity to each ethnic institution and religion is now what he’s taking to high heaven. What he and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu were sensitive to and respected in 2015… why didn’t Tinubu run with him then?”

He went on to rubbish the evaluation of the APC Muslim-Muslim price tag to that fielded through the Social Democratic party while the overdue Moshood Kashimawo Abiola and his walking mate, Baba Gana Kingibe, each Muslims, contested the presidential election in 1993.

He said, “They should stop evaluating this with 1993. We did now not have those issues in 1993. None of them has the qualities and greatness that MKO had. You may’t be evaluating apples and oranges or whatever. See the polarisation and trampling of regions by using our President; you’re now displaying us that a location in the country doesn’t have able and smart human beings. Is all of it approximately votes? Where is the place for principle, fairness and justice?”

Requested what the state of affairs might be like if a ruling birthday party fielded Christian-Christian presidential price ticket, Aiyedogbon said, “i will tell you that many locations will be burning by using now; blood might be flowing due to the fact there are extremists on the opposite aspect of the divide of faith that are not tolerant at all. They have been impoverished, poverty has been weaponised and those human beings had been turned into guns. So, they will simply inform them, can you imagine, they may be saying that both President and vice chairman of the following election need to be Christian. Before you are aware of it, they’ll start burning and start killing. I lived in the North for almost 10 years and realize what we suffered.”
On Tinubu’s running mate, he said, “Kashim Shettima has a variety of luggage. They may be denying now but there are leaked audio conversations he had with Amosun. It has been in movement and i saved it since it became launched. Move and pay attention to the matters he stated towards the South-East, towards the Christians; we know his antecedents while governor of Borno. If any Christian leader unexpectedly starts to help Muslim-Muslim price ticket, we’ll suspect that he has been offered. The purpose they’re treating us like this is because some of the Christian leaders that represented us have allowed greed to drive them; they’ve proven that they may be cash and convey, they’ve a price.”

Asked if there’s a sizable amount of Christians in the North to make their votes worth of attention, Aiyedogbon stated that the concept that Christians are minority inside the place is a fallacy.

He stated, “there was an assumption, that’s an illusion and fallacy, that Christians are minority inside the North. I started out my venture work in Katsina, which is much less than two hours from Daura, President Buhari’s fatherland. I used to go to Dutsema where his strengthen motorcade changed into attacked. In all of those locations, we did practical undertaking paintings. The primary component they’ve carried out to us is to make Southerners suppose that everyone inside the North is Hausa. Now, they have started out calling it Hausa/Fulani. There is nothing referred to as Hausa/Fulani. There are people inside the South that buy the lies that everybody within the North is a Muslim. You pay attention a name like Yakubu and you think it’s Islamic. There are humans even bearing Islamic names but are not Muslims. So, the complete evaluation is primarily based on a fake premise and there has constantly been inflation of figures. From pre-independence and post-independence, populace has continually been manipulated due to the tradition that says you may’t enter a married guy’s house within the North to be counted his wives and children. So, while people come to depend all through the census, anyone will just pop out and say he has 12 wives and 75 children; you haven’t any proper to move and verify something listing he gives. So, figures have usually been manipulated and the whole concept is primarily based on that false premise. In case you virtually interrogate that and difficulty it to forensic evaluation, matters will collapse.”

Whilst requested if Christians might be informed to vote in opposition to the APC, the clergyman said that Christians are already mobilising to educate the APC a lesson not to trample on individuals who are tolerant.

He stated, “It’s not whether or not CAN, PFN or we Christian leaders will mobilise our contributors to vote against the APC and this price tag, we are already doing it and we’re going to do more.” He brought, “whether or not they win or lose, they may learn that you don’t trample on people because they are tolerant or due to the fact you have sold a few people which might be compromised. We are going to educate them a lesson. We’re telling Christians to keep praying, allow’s cry to God that those human beings, in place of assuaging our ache and the blood that has been flowing, are exalting and brandishing themselves and gaslighting us. We are able to mobilise and do the whole lot within our electricity. Even if we die within the system, it’s miles worth it.”