Festus Keyamo (SAN), the spokesperson for the presidential campaign of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has criticized the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) for interfering in the business of the ruling party.
Keyamo stated in a Channels Television interview on Sunday that pastors should refrain from getting involved in politics and that PFN has no right to criticize the actions of the ruling party.
In response to David Bakare, the PFN’s deputy national secretary, saying that the organization has no ties to the Pentecostal Bishops Forum of Northern Nigeria members who met with Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate, last Friday, Keyamo, the minister of state for labor and employment, made this statement.
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He emphasized that such a group does not exist within the PFN’s fold and that the PFN was in no way associated with the meeting between Tinubu and the Northern Bishops.
The Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket put up by the ruling party for the 2023 general elections, according to Bakare, is still opposed by fellowship.
The Minister responded by pointing out that the Christian association is not a part of the APC and that they ought to cast their ballots in the election of 2023.
He said: “They should not be coming to question the decision of our party publicly. The purpose of pastors or their duty is to lead people to heaven not to lead people to [presidential] villa.
“If I go to church every Sunday, I want to hear the sermon of God and I don’t want to hear the sermon of politics or who should rule me.
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“I want to hear the sermon of God and what will lead me to salvation and not what to lead me to the villa.”
Keyamo said the party will present to Nigerians the performance of Tinubu during his time as governor of Lagos, adding that Nigerians are too hungry to be bothered about issues bordering on religion.
“Nigerians are hungry, they want to see how that hunger will be addressed, not how their Christian or Muslim faiths will be addressed,” he said.
“They want to see our policies on agriculture and what Asiwaju has done before as governor of Lagos state, how he improved Lagos and how he will bring that kind of posterity to Nigeria as a whole,” he added.
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