*2023 general* *elections is a* *shame, a national* *disgrace -* Dr Akinyemi Bolaji
By Ifeoma Ikem
The recent 2023 presidential and governorship general elections have been described as very shameful and disgraceful to a country like Nigeria!
The convener Apostolic Round Table (ART), Dr Bolaji Akinyemi, who made the assertion in an online interview with the Sahara weekly correspondent on Sunday said the elections were marred by violence experienced across the nation.
“I am deeply pained by the event leading to the general elections in Nigeria, the level of violence that we witnessed!
“My pain is not on those who are not believers but those who are in Christ and join in perpetrating this level of ignorance of bigotry!
Akinyemi said that the outstanding scripture when he first got born again was the teaching of Apostle Paul in Ephesians 2 from verse 11 which talked about the oneness that we have in Christ!
“This one new man was lost in the church! We saw Yoruba Christians and igbo Christians divided along the line of unbelievable political hatred!
“Whatever resurrected the enmity that Christ slew I cannot explain!
Whatever took over our minds to fail to understand that we were made to be one in Christ is unexplainable!
“I saw sons and daughters of God calling each other unprintable names in the name of politics!
“I remember when I first got saved and went to join a church verse 19 of that scripture was sang as a song which is always emotional whenever it is being sang”!
Akinyemi said that he saw Nigerian citizens and saints who took back strange identities and failed to see what God needed to do through the oneness of the church in Nigeria!
“I can only pray that God will bring them to the understanding that a child of God is beyond politics! It is all about the kingdom of God.
All the same, we still have steps to take to bring about healing and champion oneness that is needed at this time for nation building, he therefore advice all Nigerians to look out for ATS- After The Storm.
“I presume democracy supposed to be free, fair, and transparent but it is the other way round and when elections are not fair, open, and transparent, it is disenfranchising and shatters citizens’ faith for nation building.
