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| Pastor Adeboye praying for President Jonathan |
By Pius Adesanmi
Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the Daddy General Overseer of the
Redeemed Christian Church of God, has been in the headlines for all the right
reasons lately. In August 2010, several newspapers quoted him as he declared
war on election rigging and riggers.
"We shall resist election riggers in 2011", the
famous preacher was reported to have fumed decisively. He ended 2010 on a grand
note: Goodluck Jonathan went to beseech God at Daddy General Overseer’s feet,
creating a famous photo-op in the process. Our internet commentariat went gaga
for the wrong reasons, condemning Goodluck Jonathan for contacting God through
the pastor’s intermission. Jonathan’s genuflection before God became the issue.
Nobody paid attention to Pastor Adeboye’s iteration of his warning that election
riggers would not be tolerated in 2011. He even fired a warning shot at
Attahiru Jega and threatened to lead protests against fraudulent elections in
2011.
This is a heartening development. Pastor Enoch Adeboye is
welcome to the Pastor Tunde Bakare corner of our collective struggle to take
Nigeria back from the vultures in Abuja and the state capitals. What took him
so long? Hopefully, his residency in this auspicious corner of the struggle
shall not be temporary. For now, we shall pretend that we don’t mind the fact
that Pastor Adeboye is spending too much time warning INEC and Jega instead of
just kuku directly telling the scurrilous Presidents, state governors,
ministers, senators, reps, chieftains, stakeholders, elder statesmen and such
other ridiculous characters who regularly go to him for kneeling sessions and
photo-ops that their irresponsibility and corruption will no longer be
tolerated.
