2019 Polls: PFN preaches peace, ask Nigerians to vote rightly

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Ogun State chapter, on Friday prayed for peaceful general elections in 2019, with calls on Nigerians to embrace peace and vote according to their conscience.

The PFN also urged Nigerians to desist from politicizing everything happening in the country, shun vote selling and buying as well as refrain from playing politics with the lives of others.

The State chairman of PFN, Apostle David Otaru, who made this known in Sagamu, Ogun State, while addressing reporters on the first 100 days of the new  executives of the Christian body,  also advised that whoever commits a crime should be treated as criminal without politicizing it along ethnic, religious and party lines.

Otaru who disclosed that the new executives of PFN which he leads in the state would focus on evangelism, winning of souls and charity to the needy in the next four years, also warned that Nigerians risk having unsafe country if they continue to politicize suspects of “crimes or play politics with people’s lives.”

He said: “We pray for peaceful elections in Nigeria, we don’t have other nation than Nigeria. Let’s go to the poll and vote according to our conscience. Let there be peace in Nigeria and every part of it.

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“Nigeria is greater than one individual and his dream. Nigeria is a collective project and not one man’s project. In an election, there will be winners and losers, that is how it is and we saw that in the just concluded midterm election in the US where the Democrats won more seats at the House of Representatives than the Republicans.

“There should be religious tolerance in Nigeria. I came from a muslim background. In my family, my eldest sister is a Muslim and she is in my house. One of my brothers recently called to say he is now a Christian.

“Everybody should be free to practice what he deemed fit as his faith. 98% of my family members are Muslims and we still live peacefully and happily together and the constitution allows it.

“We should allow peace to reign, this is very important as we approach another election year. We should not play politics with everything. One of our problems in this country is that we play politics with everything. I won’t play politics with people’s lives.

“Whoever commits crime should be treated as criminal. If you play politics with that, it means we are not ready for a safe Nigeria.”