2019 Polls : PFN preaches peace, ask Nigerians to shun vote buying

THE Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Ogun State chapter, on Friday, prayed for peaceful general elections in 2019, with calls on Nigerians to embrace peace and vote according to their conscience. The PFN also urged Nigerians to desist from politicising everything happening in the country, and shun vote selling and buying as well. The State chairman of PFN, Apostle David Otaru, who made this known in Sagamu, Ogun State, while addressing reporters at the anniversary of the first 100 days of the new executive of the Christian body, also advised that whoever commits a crime should be treated as a criminal, without politicising it along ethnic, religious and party lines. He warned that Nigerians risk making the country unsafe, if they continue

to politicise suspects of “crimes or play politics with people’s lives.” Otaru, who disclosed that the new executives of PFN in the state, will focus on evangelism and charity to the needy in the next four years, said that, Nigeria is greater than one individual and his dream. “Nigeria is a collective project and not one man’s project. In an election, there will be winners and losers, that is how it is and we saw that in the just concluded mid term election in the US, where the Democrats won more seats at the House of Representatives than the Republicans. “There should be religious tolerance in Nigeria. I came from a Muslim background. In my family, my eldest sister is a Muslim and she is in my house. One of my brothers recently called to say he is now a Christian.

“Everybody should be free to practice what he deemed fit as his faith. Ninety eight per cent of my family members are Muslims, and we still live peacefully and happily together and the constitution allows it. “We should allow peace to reign, this is very important as we approach another election year. We

should not play politics with everything. One of our problems in this country is that we play politics with everything. I won’t play politics with people’s lives. “Whoever commits crime should be treated as criminal. If you play politics with that, it means we are not ready for a safe Nigeria,” he said.