‘Going By way of Church Is Not The Proper Path’- Okowa Cautions Peter Obi

Forward of the 2023 election, the vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP), Ifeanyi Okowa, has cautioned Labour Occasion (LP) flagbearer, Peter Obi, in opposition to making an attempt to assemble votes via the church.

Naija Information recollects that the previous Governor of Anambra state in latest occasions paid visits to a number of church buildings together with the Dunamis Worldwide Gospel Centre, Abuja and the Redemption Metropolis of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, the place he was warmly obtained.

Nevertheless, in an interview with DailyTrust in Kano state, Okowa, who can be the Delta State governor stated the church shouldn’t be dragged into politics.

He urged obi to cease making an attempt to make use of the Church or drive Christians into politics as a result of it’s not their calling.

In response to a query concerning the declare made by some folks that his emergence because the PDP’s vice presidential candidate was a betrayal of the south, notably in mild of Obi’s rising recognition within the area, Okowa stated it was unlucky that folks cling to something, even to the detriment of their destiny.

He stated: “Now you start to take a look at what’s going on; the Peter Obi issue is as if he’s making an attempt to undergo the church and make it look as if he’s driving the Christians into politics. I don’t imagine that the church ought to actively go into politics as a result of that isn’t their calling.

However individuals are simply hanging to something they will attain out to even to the detriment of their destiny. I don’t imagine that’s the suitable half to go”