Olusegun Obasanjo, a former president of Nigeria, has cautioned his countrymen against electing corrupt political figures ahead of the general elections in 2023.
Obasanjo warned Nigerians on Wednesday to exercise caution in the upcoming elections, warning that everyone would later regret their decisions if an unrighteous person were chosen to hold office in 2023.
When the new President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Most Reverend Daniel Okoh, paid him a visit today at his Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) Penthouse in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State, Anaedoonline.ng understands that the former president issued the warning.
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According to Obasanjo, religious leaders must educate the populace about the importance of electing moral political leaders. He noted that if unfit candidates are chosen, Nigeria will be destroyed, and everyone in the nation will regret it.
In a message made accessible to journalists by his media assistant Kehinde Akinyemi, Obasanjo urged for religious leaders to hold politicians more accountable.
He said: “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 added that “if we do not watch it, the politicians will wreck this country and we’ll all regret it.”
If not from God through the religious leaders, where else could the country seek for rescue, the former President pondered.
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Politics, according to the wise man who was a mistake of the past, especially in Christendom, “is not for the pious.”
“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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