Former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, has issued a warning over the results of the country’s forthcoming 2023 presidential election.
Speaking on Wednesday, September 23, while hosting Reverend Daniel T. Okoh, President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), who paid him a visit at his penthouse residence at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State, the former president said the 2023 elections could make or break Nigeria.
In a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, Obasanjo stated that “everyone would regret it” if clerics allow the political class to destroy Nigeria.
The statement read: “If you stand on the truth, you stand for justice and equity, then the politicians will not be able to mess us around and I will say it with all sense of responsibility now if we do not watch it, the politicians will wreck this country and we all regret it.
“And where can we look for salvation, that is where you religious leaders have a significant role to play. I think it’s the mistake of the past (particularly in Christendom), that we say politics is not for the righteous. 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 and will have nowhere to go.
“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 also commended the CAN President for working to advance peace in the nation through his relationship with Saad Abubakar, the Sultan of Sokoto.
