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Nigeria Vice President Yemi Osinbajo
By Chris Agada
The defeat of the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) in the APC presidential primary, didn’t come to me as a surprise. In Nigerian politics, three things usually work for you: money (if you have and ready to spend), political godfatherism and “good boy” (if you are ready to do the rough politics to assist your “oga” to come to power). And another one is anointment. But the issue is that before they can annoint you, you must be a “good boy.”
In all the aforementioned, two things that would have worked for the VP are money and annoinment. I don’t know if the VP has such money, and if he has it, was he ready to spend it?
Another area is that, those that God has blessed must invest and build people. There are many rich men that they only built and invested only in their children.
In the history of Yoruba race, no single individuals has built and invested in their people like Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu. He builds and invests in people from different states That is exactly what worked for Atiku also.
My message here is that we Christians should invest more in people. If we can spend billions of naira to build church structure, wisdom demands that we should also channel such resources to build people that are occupying such edifies.
We have been shouting marginalization during the nearly 8-year of this administration, and with the look of things, it’s 98 per cent clear that the next president is still going to be Muslim. This means, we may have another 8 years of the opposite religion in power, making it a total of 16 years in office. I’m not a religion fantastic but the point I’m trying to establish is that we have thousands Christians that can be good leaders if given opportunity. Our three pastors that contested the APC presidential primary yesterday apart from Osinbajo, the remaining two scored zero – N100m thrown into an ocean! (Just like that).
Elections are not won on the altar alone. If we do the prayers and grammars, we should do the needful by 100 per cent get involved in politics. It’s a shame that our (Christian) leaders went to sleep and allowed our people (Christian contestants) to suffer heavy defeat from both the two major parties (PDP and APC).
If it’s money, that can’t be problem of the church because we have it enough. We have single individuals that can even finance all the logistics as it concerns APC presidential primaries for Osinbajo. If it’s number, we have them. But the major challenge we are facing in this country as Christians is lack of unity (which was majorly caused by greed). Politics is a game of number and unity; and this is missing among we Christians in Nigeria. We are so divided. Everybody holds on to his empire we call church, and has no business with what is happening to his/her brother in another church.
I have said it before and keep saying it again if we continue this way, we are going nowhere; as it regards politics. Osinbajo went to primary mainly by depending on God and his boss. He doesn’t have any political structure. Those who advised him to slug it out with his political godfather, should have also prepared logistics support for him. They asked him to contest and left him alone in the ring. Those who understand politics better now gang up to teach him a hard lesson.
We must be more serious as Christians so that we can change the narrative in the nearest future. All hope is not yet lost, we have Peter Obi in the race, we can rally round him, and God might use the “Rock” (Peter Obi) to change the narrative. May God help the church.
Agada is the Group Managing Director of Exploits Journal, publisher of Exploits Christian magazines, and NIGERIA PROJECT newspapers.
