The former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, on Saturday said elections in Nigeria were corrupt, urging Christians to fully participate in politics to make it clean.
He made this known at the 57th annual convention and 67th anniversary of The Gospel Faith Mission International held at the Gospel City, Ogunmakin on Lagos/Ibadan expressway in Ogun State.
Obasanjo, while speaking on the theme, ‘The Roles of the Church in Nation Building at a Time Like This’, said when there is insecurity, hopelessness, poverty, depression, a time that is not conducive to living, the church must rise up to the occasion as the salt of the world.
“The foundation of election in Nigeria is corruption and you cannot make corruption the foundation of anything for it to be good”
While sighting the 1999 elections, he said the two first sad and bad experiences he had were during the local government election,were PDP was totally rejected.
“‘The two first sad and bad experiences that I had, we had local govt election in 1999.”
A few days to the election, they said to me where is the money for the police, money for INEC, I said no money , money for DSS”.
Obasanjo noted he did not make money available because he felt all government agencies should have been paid towards discharging their duties.
Earlier, the General-Overseer of GOFAMINT, E. O. Abina, recalled that during a visit to Aso Rock Chapel when Obasanjo was the President, he met with him teaching Sunday School, adding that when they both spoke on his arrival at the convention ground, the former President told him to his astonishment that he was still teaching Sunday School.
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