By Adesina Soyooye
A Human Rights Lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, has criticized the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, for its silence on the 2023 Presidential Election in the Country.
Effiong, who slammed the RCCG for its seeming indifference, described the silence of the Leadership of the Church as a sin.
Pastor Enoch Adeboye is the General Overseer, GO, of the Chuch, which boasts of a very large congregation, running into tens of millions.
The Lawyer wondered why the RCCG which established a Political Department during the Presidential Party Primaries, especially, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, suddenly went dumb.
He alleged that the Church, perhaps, established the Department because one of its own, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, a Pastor in the Church, was a Presidential aspirant of the APC. He said the RCCG went cold as soon as Asiwaju Bola Tinubu defeated the Vice President.
His words: “What happened to the Political Department that the RCCG formed during the Primaries?
“You don’t have to mention the name of a particular Candidate. But you have a duty to guide your members on the attributes of the candidate they should vote for.
“Should a Church only be politically active when a member is contesting? Is the Body of Christ no longer one? It should be about the betterment of Nigeria.
“I have a problem with some Religious Leaders in this Country. I have seen first hand in Akwa Ibom State how corrupt Religious Leaders have aided the criminality of corrupt politicians.
“The Nation is bleeding. Every Pastor or Imam that truly cares about a better Nigeria should speak out against those who are holding us down.
“Prayers alone will never salvage Nigeria. It will take responsible and credible Leadership to rescue this Country. That is why the Bible says that when the righteous is on the throne, the people rejoice.
“In other words, when the unrighteous is on the throne, the people suffer.
Silence at this time is a sin!”
A number of Churches, especially, of the Pentecostal bent, have been vigorous in guiding members of their congregations to ignore tribe and religion and vote for a God-fearing Presidential Candidate who would straighten out Nigeria.
Unlike many of those Churches with a large congregation, the RCCG has been silent.
