2023 Election: God’s Wish Means Doing what is Right -Peter O.

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the past February 25 Presidential election, Peter Obi, said on Monday 13^th March, 2023 on Arise TV that the wish of God was to do with doing the right thing. Fouls can’t be played and the results are to be accepted as God’s wish.

This was due to some questions asked about his view on some clerics and prominent Nigerians on the outcome of the presidential election. Obi, who said he respects prominent Nigerians including clerics and traditional rulers, said, “I disagree with them. What they’re actually preaching is the problem of Nigeria”.

“The problem of Nigeria is accepting wrongdoing, accepting what is unacceptable…that is using God’s name in vain. That’s not what God says.”

He further reiterated that, “What they’re saying is not God’s wish. It is not God’s plan for Nigeria. Why don’t we accept that the 133 million Nigerians who are poor is God’s wish? Why don’t we accept that 95 million Nigerians living in…poverty is God’s wish? It is God’s wish that we don’t have electricity. It is God’s wish that our children are kidnapped. It is God’s wish that we have collapsed primary healthcare leading us to be the country with the highest (rate of) infant mortality… That’s not what God says.

“God’s wish is when you do the right thing.”

Mr Obi emphasized on clear laws for the conduct of the elections that were not followed hence, the challenge on the results but if the laws were followed, no one would challenge the process and it would have been concluded in a matter of hours without anybody arguing about it.”

“But it is not God’s wish that you do the wrong thing,” Obi added. “It is not God’s wish that you go and rob a train and make money and start sharing it… This is what is killing the country. People come here, take public money and then go and give it to people in the Church…and they say it’s God’s wish…that is what we’re fighting. That’s what we want to stop.

“We want God’s wish to be truly God’s wish. And that is when we do the right things and God gives His blessings…

Obi noted that he wants “God to allow us to do the right things so we can start building a better country for our children.”

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