“It is my view that the Nigerian elite, religious leaders and politicians think alike when it comes to corruption and they were always very selfish, playing religious and ethnic cards when it pleases them,” Osinbajo said.
Speaking yesterday in Lagos at the Greater Nigeria Pastors Conference, themed, ‘Towards a Better Nigeria, the Role of the Church, vice-president Yemi Osinbajo emphatically cleared the waves made by Elite and religious leaders who insinuates that only politicians are corrupt in the country.
Osinbanjo accused religious leaders of their extremism towards religious things whereby human life suffers because they often look the other way where they are meant to stand up and fight for the masses. To buttress the point the VP asked religious leaders present at the conference, “how many Christian leaders stood up to complain when there was rampant corruption that crippled Nigeria?”
He said no country can survive the level of corruption the country found itself in the past so much so that different ethnic leaders will come together to loot fund and still argue about it. According to Guardian news,Osinbajo said “Our elite and politicians are united when it comes to corruption. I have never seen a situation where an Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa and other tribes joined hands to steal money and argued about it.”
“The church must begin the process of uniting Nigeria by uniting itself. What Nigeria needs to survive are already contained in the Bible. We cannot practise two gospels. The reason the country is what it is today is because we (Christians) care to practise what the Bible teaches.”
To a great extent his statements are true and correct, but it is still the same ‘pointing of fingers Buhari’s administration play. Nigeria’s past is the reason they are there to make it right and better, looking back from the course is a delay tactic. We need the support of the religious leaders and elites truly, but at the same time, we need our politicians to correct the pattern or at least make it hard for the religious leaders and the elites for them to be corrupt.
If our politicians are not corrupt, our elites and religious leaders will find it hard to be corrupt.
