Keyamo to PFN: Preach salvation, not politics
Festus Keyamo, the director, public affairs of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, has urged the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) to concentrate on preaching salvation, instead of politics.
Keyamo’s statement comes as a reaction to the comment by David Bakare, the deputy national secretary of the PFN, who in an interview distanced the religious body and its parent Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) from the Pentecostal Bishops of Northern Nigeria. The bishops had met with the APC presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu last week amid opposition from CAN and PFN against the party’s same faith ticket.
Keyamo said, “The PFN are not members of our party. They should go and vote that day”.
“They should not be coming to question the decision of our party publicly. The purpose of pastors or their duty is to lead people to heaven not to lead people to [presidential] villa.
“If I go to church every Sunday, I want to hear the sermon of God and I don’t want to hear the sermon of politics or who should rule me.
“I want to hear the sermon of God and what will lead me to salvation and not what to lead me to the villa.
“Nigerians are hungry, they want to see how that hunger will be addressed, not how their Christian or Muslim faiths will be addressed,” he said.
“They want to see our policies on agriculture and what Asiwaju has done before as governor of Lagos state, how he improved Lagos and how he will bring that kind of posterity to Nigeria as a whole.”
