Emmanuel Ibekwe
“Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.”
Strange children in high places.
It is inconceivable that RCCG should be supporting political dogs with old tricks. Fancy words, colourful propaganda, social media influencers , professional liars and tongue twisters to oppress Nigerians for Osinbajo to cruise for another eight years, thereby encouraging the vicious cycle to continue.
One of them, RCCG Youth Pastor called for the sack of the Head of Politics and Governance of RCCG, Pastor Timothy Olaniyan for using the platform to campaign for Osinbajo.
The pastor Timothy Olaniyan had, in the said statement, claimed that only Osinbajo can change the narrative of governance in Nigeria.
That’s why it’s very dangerous for the church to get involved in politics. Politics should be outside the church . The church should not get involved in politics. It would bring division, hatred, wickedness all sorts of satanic vices among members.
Another RCCG pastor said: 2023: VP Osinbajo will only build on President Buhari’s failed promises – RCCG pastor
My question is : IS PASTOR ADEBOYE STILL INCHARGE OF RCCG? POLITICS PRIDE AND GRACE CANNOT DWELL TOGETHER.
RCCG pastors are already singing different songs.
Saying that Only Osinbajo can end corruption, give Nigerians free education by the RCCG Political Department is an insult to the sensibilities of Nigerians. Should such a declaration come from RCCG in the light of the suffering masses that include RCCG members. They are virtually dividing the church.
Without waiting for INEC to blow the whistle, the Directorate of Politics and Governance, a political department set up by the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), has begun evangelizing and canvassing support for Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s presidential bid, after seven wasted years as VP. Shame!!
So, the mentally unstable MURIC miscreant Ishaq Akintola is right. RCCG wants to start partisan politics. I hope RCCG is not digging its grave because politicians will bury RCCG at the brothel .
Earlier in the year, the same Timothy Olaniyan, who is the head of the department had previously denied mobilising support for the vice president’s ambition, but is now saying that Mr Osinbajo, being a “child of God,” remained the only aspirant capable of changing the governance narrative in Nigeria. Imagine!!
He was even shamelessly speaking to journalists at the inaugural conference of a political movement called New Era Nigeria (NEN). Mr Olaniyan said that the country deserved an honest leader. What an honest Osinbajo.
“It is high time our eyes were opened. What we want is not those baits, we want somebody that would make a promise to our children and fulfil it,”. “If you tell me education will be free, I want you to get there and make it free so that we will not continue to build up youths who have no future.”
From his own records as a Nigerian, what promises did Osinbajo and his party make that they have kept.
We were told that RCCG created the department to mobilise support for members of the mission seeking elective office, a move that further blurred the thin line between religious prejudices and the state in Nigeria.
When we said, this Political Department was set up to advance Osinbajo’s political career, we were called names.
Time reveals all things.
RCCG is even acting faster than political parties . Faster on political issues more than professional politicians.
We already knew that the creation of the department was a ground work for an Osinbajo Presidency, but making this statement as a Church when the nation is at crossroads is very sad. It may do more harm than good for RCCG.
I’m personally interested in knowing what Pastor Remi Tinubu’s position will be in all of this.
The church as the bride of Christ is not expected to be in love with the world and politics. They are the light of the world who come together to worship God and not to play politics. Is RCCG now a church or political party whose members are called Christians? Is the Bible no longer their constitution?
RCCG G.O said in one of the thanks giving services that he won’t vote or recommend his members on who to vote for ,so anybody using his office in RCCG to endorse Osinbajo should be lying. Is he still in charge?
RCCG should stay out of partisan politics, it can only damage religious harmony when the campaign is based on religion and the denomination of the candidate.
Prof Ishaq is already increasing the rhetoric of Muslim Governor in Lagos state. Do you blame him? RCCG must purge herself of this political stench. RCCG should realize that it is behaving like a pressure group by calling for support of its own without knowing that it is dragging the faith into the slum.
This is very bewildering.
Muric too can support its own and begin to brew hate on Christians.
RCCG has helped them justify their own goal. It will get to where the other orthodox churches will also support their own for partisan politics. On the balance of number, Is RCCG more in number than Anglicans, Methodists and other Pentecostal churches combined. And for sure ,not all members of RCCG are in APC .
Pastor Tunde Bakare said God told him he’ll be president in 2023. Now RCCG says it’s Pastor Osinbajo. Who knows what God will tell other churches ?
Isn’t it rather strange that RCCG didn’t realize that. Their beloved member/pastor Osinbajo was part and parcel of those who strategically and deceitfully used “baits and promises” to deceive and bewitch Nigerians in 2015 and 2019, in the name of change and next level?
When churches start making their own as RCCG then you can’t blame people for their perception about churches.
House on the Rock declared their total support Chukwuka Monye who is their member just after the church service .We saw it coming. This was coming after RCCG created a department for politics.
Which means that Catholic and Anglican will go for Peter Obi. Then RCCG alone cannot give Osinbajo victory but they forgot that Tinubu is also there to cause harm to his ambition because of Remi Tinubu.
Are we saying that based of the disposition of RCCG ,2023 will be the first time a single church will be voting en masse for their own since RCCG is for Osinbajo.
Can The Catholic Church continue to be neutral on the matters of State. ? Will Winners support their own if they declare? Does it mean that Whoever gets more buy-in from the church will WIN.?
Should these Christian candidates bother themselves with the votes of the Muslims in the North. ?
Should Christians now decide voting based on Christian denomination.
This is dangerous.
The church is suppose to be neutral, the father of all and apolitical.
It is very dangerous when “the church “gather together for their own. The Church should be neutral.
But encourage members to participate in the electoral process, and bring in credible candidates. The emphasis should be on candidates and not on political parties and churches.
The RCCG as a church has no reason or right to choose a presidential candidate for Nigerians or to tell their members to vote for particular candidates, because they belong to their church during elections .
Or Because those persons contesting belong to their denomination. If they encourage this nonsense, when they fail like Osinbajo failed ,the church is not going to feed Nigerians until the tenure elapsed. Over to Pastor Adeboye.