By Williams Akpan
Spiritual leader of the Brotherhood of Cross and Star, Olumba
Olumba Obu, is on the offensive, over Nigerians who are busy buying the
permanent voters cards ahead of the elections in Nigeria.
Delivering a sermon at the headquarters of the church recently in
Calabar, Cross River State, Obu, the mysterious cleric said point-blank that
God will pour his wrath on those who sell and buy voters card.
According to him, some Nigerians who are in the habit of selling
and buying voters card, have been warned to desist from such unpatriotic acts
as they stand the risk of been destroyed by God should they persist.
His words "If you politicians have genuine love for the
masses, you would have while in office formulate masses oriented policies
thereby save yourselves of all these extra rigorous campaign that you
are now embarking on.
They wouldn't have been necessary as the electorates would have
gladly reciprocated by giving you their votes without any strings
attached"
He therefore implored the politicians to imbibe the politics where
love for the led will be the defining factor so as to assure that elections are
won only on track records and how they have fared when they were given an
earlier opportunity to serve even as he caution both the politicians and
the electorates to desist from the buying and selling of voters cards or face
the wrath of God as both giver and taker are guilty of the offense of bribery.
He took a swipe at some state governors who are owing their
workers for as much as two months salary yet are now busy doling out money to
buy voters cards to remember that soonest they will be visited by the
wrath of God
In a related
development, Evangelist Emma Goodnews Ezeani, chairman, Lagos state chapter of Igbo
Christians Traders & Gospel Ministers Association, while endorsing the
re-election bid of President Goodluck Jonathan said that Nigerians who are not
interested in voting in the forth-coming elections are not being fair to the
country.
According to him, if
Nigerians do not come out enmass to re-elect Jonathan to continue from where he
stopped in the delivery of democracy dividends to our citizens, the country
will go back to zero level.
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