Cleric charges Christian leaders to get involved in politics

FORMER Deputy Speaker, Oyo State House of Assembly and Presiding Pastor of Livingspring Chapel International, Femi Emmanuel, has said that the only way to rescue the nation from its current predicament is for various church leaders to get themselves and their members involved in politics right from the ward levels.

He said that is the only way through which the country could be saved from the serious predicament confronting it, else it stands perilously on the threshold of an explosive catastrophe.

The cleric, in his book titled: “Urgent need to save Nigeria: The Critical Role of Christian Leaders,” said that a huge responsibility of what goes beyond prayers but which also requires strategic steps were needed to be taken by

Christian leaders to save the country as it moves towards another transition election.

“In Nigeria, the leadership crisis is truly vexatious. The worst set of people are ruling us, governing us, making unreasonable laws and putting together hostile and obnoxious policies that are largely retrogressive and of no significant value to the populace,” the cleric said.

He lamented that God had on His path blessed the nation beyond measure, but that the only thing the country lacked and urgently needed is “God- fearing, visionary, accurate and accountable leadership” to translate her huge human and material wealth into improving the lot of her people.”

Emmanuel noted that the church has a critical role to play in providing the needed leadership for Nigeria.