- Former President Olusegun Obasanjo highlights corruption in Nigerian elections, urges Christian involvement in politics for reform
- Speaking at a church event, he emphasized the church’s role in addressing insecurity, poverty, and hopelessness
- Obasanjo recalls instances of corruption during 1999 elections and stresses the need for fair government agency compensation
On Saturday, former President Olusegun Obasanjo said Nigerian elections were corrupt and urged Christians to participate in politics to clean it up fully.
He stated this at The Gospel Faith Mission International’s 57th annual convention and 67th anniversary, which was held at the Gospel City, Ogunmakin on the Lagos/Ibadan motorway 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 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.
They asked me a few days before the election, “Where is the money for the police and INEC?” I replied, “No money, money for DSS.”
Obasanjo stated that he did not make money available because he believed that all government agencies should have been paid to perform their duties.
Earlier, the General-Overseer of GOFAMINT, E. O. Abina, recalled that when Obasanjo was President, he met with him while teaching Sunday School, and that when they both spoke on his arrival at the convention ground, the former President surprised him by telling him that he was still teaching Sunday School.