The Primate of St. Peters Cherubim & Seraphim Band, Prophet Albert Samson Arojah, has picked on church leaders for not doing enough in terms of transparency, the problem he said conversely reflected on the outside society.
Citing involvement of many Christian leaders in corrupt practices of dodging taxes and helping rig elections for their paymasters during an interview with www.worldstagenews.com/, he maintained that such moral and social breach could not help a nation to develop but rather weaken it.
“If we serve God in all honesty in our churches, it will reflect on the outside world. We should be careful about praying for those politicians coming to us because they are desperate for political power and can thereby stain your reputation as servants of God,” Arojah warned.
He equally berated politicians for characteristically playing politics with envy, dishonesty and bitterness and blamed the electorate for selling their future to the politicians and yet expected them to do right when they got to office.
He said Nigerian politics was such that any gentleman that went into it was sure to lose one or two things – his life or his cool, recalling the instance of former Goodluck Ebele Jonathan who he said came with listening ears and wanted to please all Nigerians but ended up losing everything.
“Goodluck Jonathan came with listening ears and wanted to please Nigerians but lost everything, including his good luck before he left office in disgrace,” Arojah stated.
He added that leadership was not the biggest problem facing Nigeria’s democracy given, according to him, that Obasanjo came in, reformed the banking sector, liberalized telecommunications, and achieved many other development strides without much relief from the pervasive social and economic problems confronting Nigerians.
He wondered how the leaders could perform when voters were ever eager to sell themselves to politicians, saying “voters collect money to vote and when politicians take office and begin to recover their investments, the same voters will start cursing them.”
“Who is cursed?” He asked rhetorically. He however pleaded that rather than curse those in authority, Nigerians should pray for them and asked them to support government’s efforts at turning situation around for better.
Arojah, who is a music talent and has composed over 600 hymns for his church and the entire Christendom, warned politicians to moderate their ambitions and competition for political power as, according to him, God had previously sent him with the warning to them.
