Countdown to 2023: Leave prayers & God, vote

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Think and think if you can still think. Leave prayer and God alone, get out there and vote for that person you believe will do a better job of leading to greatness and not make empties promises

 

STEVEN AYA  l Wednesday, December 21, 2022

 

LAGOS, Nigeria – Recently I attended two of the largest collection or gathering of Christians in Nigeria, the level of prayers that took place there surely did got God’s attention.

And if I was not a faith person and a Nigerian, I would have had other ideas. The time spent in asking God to give us a leader that will lead us in righteousness and truth got me thinking what a hell is wrong with our religious leaders, why the long hours of prayers when God has given us the power to choose for ourselves a good leader, so why worry him?

So, I came to the conclusion that there is something wrong somewhere. If you see it the other way then look at the following scenarios and give yourself the answer.

When your drink is not cold you call the barman in anger to change it for you. “Barman! What’s your problem? This beer is not cold…” You don’t call God to intervene.

If a bus conductor gives you rough Naira notes as change, you fight him to change it for you. “Conductor, are you mad? You better change my change for me now before I show you who I am..” You don’t pray to God to help you appeal to the conductor.

When another cross your wife, and you have all the needed evidence, God will be the last thing on your mind at that particular time as you do everything in your power to get the woman out of your house because of infidelity, you will disregard the pleading of all around you including the men of God.

And when you mis-married, you change your husband or wife after accusing him/her of many offences. “That idiot is a flirt, dirty, nympho, arrogant, dis-respective, pretentious, diabolical, violent, wasteful, I don’t want to die, I am fed up, marriage is not prison…” You won’t leave the fight to God to fight for you and stay put till you are killed in an unworkable relationship.

When” NEPA” aka Discos gives you crazy bill and no light, you flare up, at times go violent with poor and struggling Nepa boys like you. You come on social media to complain and protest to their offices. You don’t pray & fast for God’s intervention in your Nepa problem

If your mechanic misbehaves and starts to promise and fail in his service delivery and is fraudulent by buying fake parts, you sack him,, arrest him at times and demarket him to your friends. “That mechanic I introduced to you is a thief and a terrible person, be careful of him o, he don show me pepper, if he shows you your own pepper, pls don’t call me o..” You don’t pray to God to change the attitude of your mechanic.

When your worker is becoming irresponsible, unreliable and unproductive, you sack him after failing to respond to your advice. You don’t do kurukere kurukere to prayer centres to salvage him by God’s power.

And if you are a lawyer or a client of a lawyer, if you are suspecting the judge handling your matter of bias and other hanky – panky, you don’t pray to God/Almighty Allah to touch the heart of “My Lord”. You write petition against him to recuse himself from your case and you secretly leak his behavior to the media.

But when it’s politics and governance it is different, when the leaders you elected to govern you at different levels start to fail or have failed you woefully, in fulfilling the promises they voluntarily made to us and our life, that of your family, friends and business are adversely affected by the bad decision they took, we turn to God for intervention. We even start defending the rogues in powers and their failure because of political partisanship, patronage, pecuniary interest or you are just been voluntarily stupid.

The same God you did not invite to fight for you in your divorced matrimony, at the bar, or to intervene in your case with your bad mechanics or the conductor, you are now calling to intervene and fight for you like a thug or bodyguard when you know what to do but refuse to do it? That’s interesting!

The truth is that you are one of these, you are either foolish or just senseless? No I don’t think so and I don’t think I will honour you with that indulgence of pretending to be foolish or senseless because we Nigerians are educated or allegedly educated to the level of knowing what is good bad and ugly. Educated to know that when our child asked for bread, we go get it for them not to give them a stone. Educated to know who is a better person who will lead this country well and not renew our hope.

Well, may be you are just exercising your fundamental human right to be wholly stupid or just selectively stupid because of politics, selfishness or been tribal in nature.

Great nations are not built by the aggregate idiocy of their foolish citizens who can sacrifice their life, ideology and principles, if any, for partisan interest to enable rogue politicians in power at the expense of the greatness of their nations and citizens. Great nations are built by conscientious citizenry who are determined to make their countries great for the benefits of all.

Think and think if you can still think. Leave prayer and God alone, get out there and vote for that person you believe will do a better job of leading to greatness and not make empties promises

 

 

 

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