By Charles Ogbu (Twitter@RealCharlesOgbu)
The question SHOULD NOT be whether or not a church has the right to set a policy of ‘NO PVC NO ENTRY’ for those wishing to worship with that particular church. The Body of Christ has, not just the right but the duty and obligation of using every NECESSARY MEANS to get her members to pay more attention to the people applying to manage their lives. To engage in any argument over this would amount to violating the book of 2 Timothy 2:23 which enjoins Christians not to engage in fuulish and stvpid argument because it leads to nothing but quarrel.
The question should rather be,
Why should an adult Nigerian Christian of voting age who lives in Nigeria and witnessed the past 7 years under Buhari’s governmentlessness, wait for the church to remind him/her to go get a PVC??
The pr0blem with some Christians is that they think everything is an avenue to make high-sounding but commonsensically bankrupt argument even on matters of EXISTENTIAL NATURE.
Do some of us even realise that MOST of the things we spend long hours praying and speaking in tongue for God to do for us are things that a WORKING SYSTEM (Good Governance) can take care of??
Why else do you think most Nigerians who spend 7 days a week in churches in Nigeria almost always stop going to church entirely immediately they relocate abroad???
Let me be very clear; Now that it appears the church has woken up to her civic duty of participating in choosing credible leaders, I FULLY SUPPORT any measure deployed towards getting the ever docile politically-unaware Christians to go get their PVC.
How can you not get your PVC only to later come and go and be disturbing God for problems a responsible govt your PVC would have voted in would have solved?????? What sort of follow-come fuulishness is that?
I AM IN FULL SUPPORT of the Catholic Priest seen in viral video telling members to go get their PVC or they won’t be allowed access into the church. The only tragedy in that video is seeing that young people who are mostly students that have been at home for monthS as a result of ASUU strike were waiting for their Priest to remind them the need to vote out heartless cr00ks who kept them at home while their own kids are having uninterrupted academic lives abroad.
My only problem with the good reverend father was that he was talking to them without some Koboko. Even Jesus fully understand that extreme times call for extreme measures as demonstrated in the book of Matthew 21:12. The Priest should have used Koboko to get them to be OBI-dient to simple civic duty.
Instead of debating n0nsense, we all should channel our efforts towards pressuring INEC Nigeria to extend the PVC deadline and release THOUSANDS of PVC machine to capture millions of young Nigerians who are set and determined to fight for their future. Releasing only 209 machine when MILLIONS of would-be-voters are spending hours everyday at the registration centers due to non-availability of the machine speaks to a disgracefully poor preparedness on the part of the commission.
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