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Rev. Peter Obadan
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Former
Deputy Governor of Edo State, Rev. Peter Obadan, has warned leaders of the
Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria against endorsing President Goodluck Jonathan
at the PFN Biennial Conference which kicks off in Lagos on Wednesday.
He
said it would be unacceptable for the men of God to use the occasion to endorse
President Jonathan when the body has one its own, Prof. Yemi Osibanjo as the
vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), according to The Nation.
Obadan,
who spoke to journalists in Benin City, urged the Christian body not to use
religion to blackmail Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, the APC presidential candidate.
The
former Deputy Governor noted that the issues about Islamizing Nigeria and
unearthing Buhari’s past because of his disciplinary measures were arrant
nonsense.
He
reminded the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor
Ayo Oritsejafor and the President of the PFN, Pastor Felix Omobhude, that the
late Arch Bishop Benson Idahosa, who is regarded as father of PFN supported a
Muslim/Muslim ticket when the late Chief M.K.O Abiola and Amb. Baba Gana
Kingibe ran for the Presidency.
He
said, “I will advise the leadership of PFN to encourage all Christians to vote
their conscience. And if PFN must endorse, we must endorse our own
Buhari/Osinbajo. For Pentecostal minister to make a declaration for Jonathan is
a vote for corruption, vote for inefficiency of which I am sure God will also
hold them accountable for the sufferings of Nigerians.”
“Capitalistic
ministers who have been blessed with wealth including private jets, who are
thinking that they may be called upon to account for the source of their wealth
if Buhari wins, need not to be afraid because they will also have access to the
Presidency because the vice presidential candidate of the APC is a minister of
God which we have never had as a nation.”
“All the blackmail and
whatever against Buhari are ungodly because Buhari took over the reins of this
nation when drug barons were almost taking over the entire nation and there was
so much corruption in the civilian administration then. Majority of Nigerians
applauded the military intervention then if not, Nigeria would have collapsed.”
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