2023: Beware of Peter Obi - Christian group warn Nigerians

A Christian group has warned Nigerians to beware of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party.

The United Christian Youth Forum of Nigeria (UCYFN) made the warning on Friday, November 18, in Abuja.

Speaking in a press conference, the president of the group, Peterson A Daniels slammed Peter Obi for allegedly using religion to deceive his followers and that he is pretending to be what he is not.

He said: “You have, like other Nigerians, been assaulted by images from the visit of Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate Peter Obi to Edo state as part of his campaign for the 2023 Presidential Election. That visit was marked by Mr Obi making a pit stop at a night vigil and a Catholic Mass, where he was seen kneeling down to receive prayers from the clergy in a series of photographs that have gone viral.

“Prior to the start of the campaign, Mr Obi has become a prominent feature of Christian worship centres across the country through deals brokered with the overseers of these participating congregations by his agents. These visits to Pentecostal and Protestant congregants were made to trend in the media and social media, ostensibly to frame the LP candidate as a God-fearing person."
According to Daniels, their outburst was to alert Nigerians against being misled in supporting "the devil as their next president".

The group also claimed that Peter Obi was unfit to be the next president of Nigeria in 2023 as a result of his hatred for non-Catholics and Nigerians of other faiths.

He stressed: “In conclusion, the United Christian Youth Forum of Nigeria hereby warns Nigerians to beware of the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, who has assured his inner circuit that he shall run a Catholic government if mistakenly elected as president.

“He will exclude Pentecostals, Protestants, Muslims, Animists, Agnostics and Atheists from having access to the dividends of democracy as if they are not humans. Yet, our Christian teaching is not to maltreat anyone on account of these differences. The task that Christ gave us is to witness to the world, which is the best way bring them into our fold as opposed to Mr. Obi’s sectarian fanaticism."

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