Delta state governor and vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ifeanyi Okowa, has cautioned Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi against dragging the church into politics.
Okowa, who spoke with reporters in Kano State on Wednesday, said he does not believe in dragging the church into partisan politics, stressing that politics is not the calling of the church.
He lamented that out of desperation, some presidential candidates are currently reaching out to anything even at the detriment of their faith just to win the February 2022 election.
“Now you begin to look at what is going on; the Peter Obi factor is as if he is trying to go through the church and make it look as if he is driving the Christians into politics. I do not believe that the church should actively go into politics because that is not their calling.
“But people are just hanging to anything they can reach out to even to the detriment of their fate. I don’t believe that’s the right part to go,” he said.
Peter Obi who has enjoyed a wide-range of support from young Nigerians in some parts of the country had on several occasions appeared in different church programmes.
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