He stated this at the inauguration of the Advocates for Right Leadership Association, aka Believers in Politics, Oyo chapter, titled The Emergence of Credible Political Office Holders: Our Joint Responsibility, held at RCCG Jesus Palace, Ikolaba Estate, Ibadan.
Evangelist Okeowo added that he has been doing politics for nine years and it has not affected his Christian life.
“I have been there for nine years and my faith is still intact. It is possible. I do my ministry, I do my calling as a Christian and Evangelist and I do politics. I believe strongly that a Christian can do politics and have his faith intact. It could be difficult, but it is possible.”
He added that the Believers in Politics is about sensitisation and changing the orientation of Christians particularly those who think that politics is a dirty game and are nonchalant to it.
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“We are going out to sensitise people that politics is not essentially a dirty game, but those who play it might be dirty. We are not particularly interested in any political party, we are non-partisan, we are interested in getting more people to actively participate in politics.”
The Senior Pastor of Living Spring Chapel International, Pastor Femi Emmanuel, revealed that only the church can rescue the nation adding that the church needs to rise up.
According to him, “Nigeria has sunken so deep that it will take great efforts of mobilisation, education and waking up the body of Christ to rescue this nation. Nigeria is sinking, drowning and dying, but we are the rescuers of this nation. It has to be the church and good people that will love God and love this nation.
“If our constituency is the church primarily to start with, the church can be the catalyst or platform where the Christians interested in governance can spring forth and that is my own advocacy. The church is a big giant, but deeply asleep, who will wake up this giant?
“It will take mobilisation, education, devotion and a game of strategy to create our own platform. We either create our own platform or join others and take it over from them.
“We have to incorporate the spiritual digression into this to let our people wake up.”
A former governorship aspirant of Oyo state, Hon Samson Olalere, who was a keynote speaker, also added that all Christians should not do anything for selfish reasons, but should be genuine in all they do.
“If the motive is different from God’s motive, don’t waste your time. If your motive is what God has said, that when the righteous is on the throne, the people will rejoice, then stand by that righteousness.
He advised Christians who want to go into politics to build up from the bottom to the top.
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