SENATORIAL ELECTION: Open Letter All Christians In Lagos East Senatorial District, By Bolaji Akinyemi
Dearly beloved,
What is our interest?
Kingdom greetings in the name of the resurrected Christ.
Politics, they say is about interest. At the heart of the game is INTEREST. There is therefore no bad politician or political party. A politician is as good as the interest he bonds with you and the political ideology he propagates.
There is no assumption in politics. Much as it is good to pray, participation is the spoon with which you reach out for your portion of the delicacies on the table of politics.
APC has an interest: To hold onto power.
PDP: To reclaim power
Other political parties also scramble to have a taste of power.
But what is our collective interest as Christians? We must identify and demonstrate it to protect our faith and negotiate our stake.
Our interest should be the protection of our faith, for which our lives and property are targeted in arson attacks every where you turn in a country that has become a massive graveyard of innocent lives.
The CAMA law hangs on the neck of indigenous churches like an hangman’s noose. Established churches need not fear, for they have crossed the formative stage of evolution where CAMA could be a threat to their survival. However, the admonition to be our brother’s keeper should compel them to act in the interest of the kingdom.
In politics, anti-party activities are seriously frowned at.
Similarly, the church should take a position against
anti-kingdom practices in politics.
Jesus urged us: Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness… Anything that would hinder, annihilate or stop the advancement of God’s kingdom like the CAMA law must become a binding system to forge a common interest in defence of our faith.
Churches are not the only ones snared by the draconian CAMA law but also small businesses that are still trying to find their feet as well as Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). Though churches are the ones crying foul! Islamic organisations like NASFAT and co are not insulated against the law, depending on who is sitting at the driver’s seat. What is being driven against the church today, can be against the mosque tomorrow. Survival of small businesses and NGOs should be of concern to both Christians and Muslims and for this both must rise in unity to protect their members who are in businesses.
The single largest demographic community of voters in Nigeria is the church, on the platform of Christian ASSOCIATIONS of Nigeria, please, note my emphasis. I say this without apology. The Catholic as a bloc of Christian Associations of Nigeria (CAN) can single handedly deliver Lagos East Senatorial District representative, let alone the synergy of all blocs of CAN having a common interest to protect. It can only be left to imagination what Lagos East Senatorial election result will look like if the need to have CAMA amended will be of interest strong enough to have Christians take a position and seek the hands of our Muslim neighbours to protect not just today, but tomorrow which may be cruel to one and kind to the other.
CAMA
We are not opposed to regulations, but the law as currently passed is draconian in all intent and purposes. It is an anathema to the advancement of the kingdom work in Nigeria. Ours is not to trade blames or politicise the CAMA law. It was passed by APC and PDP senators in the Senate. We may say that both senators from Lagos that participated in the passage are APC, but interestingly they are Christians. One of them is a pastor at the national headquarters of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Ebutemeta. So, it is not enough to have Christians in politics. The key point is the quality of interest they have on behalf of the kingdom as they play in the space.
Ours is to give equal opportunities to all, present our interests and whoever and whichever party that acceded to our request gets our support and votes.
To all our fathers and leaders; irrespective of your present political affiliations and patronages, the future must be kept in view to determine our flexibility.
Presenting themselves to represent Lagos East Senatorial District are:
1. Muyiwa Adebanjo – Action Alliance.
2. Mercy Adeoye – African Action Congress.
3. John Kome – African Democratic Party.
4. Adebowale Ogunlaru – Action Democratic Party.
5. Adetokunbo Abiru – APC
6. Olusola Babatope – Allied people’s Movement.
7.Florence Trautman – LP
8. Adijat Lawal – New Nigeria People’s Party.
9. Babatunde Gbadamosi – PDP.
10. Olakunle Adisa – National Resource Movement.
11.Saheed Aluko – Social Democratic Party.
12. Taiwo Temitope – Young Progressive Party.
We must sit down with them and share our yearnings to have CAMA amended and sent to the Senate who would agree to champion the need for the amendment at the floor of the Senate.
You are therefore invited to a gathering of a thousand church leaders tagged:
SWITCH-CAMA @ LagosEast.
*Date:* Monday, 19th October 2020.
*Time:* 10AM.
*Venue:* Caritas Event Centre, Plot 100, Ebute-Ibeshe Road, After Voice of Nigeria, Ikorodu, Lagos.
Progress report on CAMA:
On behalf of the Apostolic Round Table, I have been in touch with the brave and courageous son of the Kingdom, Barrister Layi T. Ademokoya, who has instituted a suit against the Federal Government at the Federal High Court Abuja before His Lord Justice Abang.
The need to send a voice of amendment to the Senate is therefore sacrosanct. We must therefore be proactive to make the best of the opportunity that Lagos East has provided us.
Participation is strictly by registration and confirmation. To register, please log on to:
www.artintl.org
I look forward to receiving you.
Yours in search of a better and greater Nigeria for kingdom interest.
Dr Bolaji O. Akinyemi
Convener, Apostolic Round Table.
What is our interest?
Kingdom greetings in the name of the resurrected Christ.
Politics, they say is about interest. At the heart of the game is INTEREST. There is therefore no bad politician or political party. A politician is as good as the interest he bonds with you and the political ideology he propagates.
There is no assumption in politics. Much as it is good to pray, participation is the spoon with which you reach out for your portion of the delicacies on the table of politics.
APC has an interest: To hold onto power.
PDP: To reclaim power
Other political parties also scramble to have a taste of power.
But what is our collective interest as Christians? We must identify and demonstrate it to protect our faith and negotiate our stake.
Our interest should be the protection of our faith, for which our lives and property are targeted in arson attacks every where you turn in a country that has become a massive graveyard of innocent lives.
The CAMA law hangs on the neck of indigenous churches like an hangman’s noose. Established churches need not fear, for they have crossed the formative stage of evolution where CAMA could be a threat to their survival. However, the admonition to be our brother’s keeper should compel them to act in the interest of the kingdom.
In politics, anti-party activities are seriously frowned at.
Similarly, the church should take a position against
anti-kingdom practices in politics.
Jesus urged us: Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness… Anything that would hinder, annihilate or stop the advancement of God’s kingdom like the CAMA law must become a binding system to forge a common interest in defence of our faith.
Churches are not the only ones snared by the draconian CAMA law but also small businesses that are still trying to find their feet as well as Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). Though churches are the ones crying foul! Islamic organisations like NASFAT and co are not insulated against the law, depending on who is sitting at the driver’s seat. What is being driven against the church today, can be against the mosque tomorrow. Survival of small businesses and NGOs should be of concern to both Christians and Muslims and for this both must rise in unity to protect their members who are in businesses.
The single largest demographic community of voters in Nigeria is the church, on the platform of Christian ASSOCIATIONS of Nigeria, please, note my emphasis. I say this without apology. The Catholic as a bloc of Christian Associations of Nigeria (CAN) can single handedly deliver Lagos East Senatorial District representative, let alone the synergy of all blocs of CAN having a common interest to protect. It can only be left to imagination what Lagos East Senatorial election result will look like if the need to have CAMA amended will be of interest strong enough to have Christians take a position and seek the hands of our Muslim neighbours to protect not just today, but tomorrow which may be cruel to one and kind to the other.
CAMA
We are not opposed to regulations, but the law as currently passed is draconian in all intent and purposes. It is an anathema to the advancement of the kingdom work in Nigeria. Ours is not to trade blames or politicise the CAMA law. It was passed by APC and PDP senators in the Senate. We may say that both senators from Lagos that participated in the passage are APC, but interestingly they are Christians. One of them is a pastor at the national headquarters of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Ebutemeta. So, it is not enough to have Christians in politics. The key point is the quality of interest they have on behalf of the kingdom as they play in the space.
Ours is to give equal opportunities to all, present our interests and whoever and whichever party that acceded to our request gets our support and votes.
To all our fathers and leaders; irrespective of your present political affiliations and patronages, the future must be kept in view to determine our flexibility.
Presenting themselves to represent Lagos East Senatorial District are:
1. Muyiwa Adebanjo – Action Alliance.
2. Mercy Adeoye – African Action Congress.
3. John Kome – African Democratic Party.
4. Adebowale Ogunlaru – Action Democratic Party.
5. Adetokunbo Abiru – APC
6. Olusola Babatope – Allied people’s Movement.
7.Florence Trautman – LP
8. Adijat Lawal – New Nigeria People’s Party.
9. Babatunde Gbadamosi – PDP.
10. Olakunle Adisa – National Resource Movement.
11.Saheed Aluko – Social Democratic Party.
12. Taiwo Temitope – Young Progressive Party.
We must sit down with them and share our yearnings to have CAMA amended and sent to the Senate who would agree to champion the need for the amendment at the floor of the Senate.
You are therefore invited to a gathering of a thousand church leaders tagged:
SWITCH-CAMA @ LagosEast.
*Date:* Monday, 19th October 2020.
*Time:* 10AM.
*Venue:* Caritas Event Centre, Plot 100, Ebute-Ibeshe Road, After Voice of Nigeria, Ikorodu, Lagos.
Progress report on CAMA:
On behalf of the Apostolic Round Table, I have been in touch with the brave and courageous son of the Kingdom, Barrister Layi T. Ademokoya, who has instituted a suit against the Federal Government at the Federal High Court Abuja before His Lord Justice Abang.
The need to send a voice of amendment to the Senate is therefore sacrosanct. We must therefore be proactive to make the best of the opportunity that Lagos East has provided us.
Participation is strictly by registration and confirmation. To register, please log on to:
www.artintl.org
I look forward to receiving you.
Yours in search of a better and greater Nigeria for kingdom interest.
Dr Bolaji O. Akinyemi
Convener, Apostolic Round Table.
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