2023: Adebayo urges clergymen to pray more, avoid prediction of poll winner

By Lateef Ibrahim, Abuja

The presidential flag bearer of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Prince Adewole Adebayo has harped on the need for the nation’s clergymen to pray more for the country and the success of the next year’s general election instead of predicting who will become the next President of Nigeria.
Adebayo, a Lawyer and Media owner, expressed the firm optimism that
the person who will rescue and save the country may not be the person Nigerians are focusing presently.
The SDP presidential candidate, who spoke on Thursday during the Christian Association of Nigeria’s (CAN) presidential handing over ceremony in where its immediate past president, Reverend Samson Ayokunle handed over the reigns of power to his successor, Most Reverend Daniel Okoh in Abuja.
Prince Adebayo however declared said God will defeat the canal expectations of people in the coming 2023 presidential elections.
According to the Prince of Ondo Kingdom, ” The clergy are called the instrument of God as they devote their entire life to the service of God and nothing will happen whether it is politics or any other thing that will turn people who are instrument of God to instrument of men.
“The church will only be instrument of God and will never be used by those who are playing politics and will only serve God and that His wills alone prevail.
“In terms of crisis, canal expectations are not where the solutions lie. When the armies of Israel were facing goliath, from their experience and expectation, they were hoping that it is one of those generals that would save Israel, but God had a better plan.
“God brought out an unexpected David who was not regarded and not part of the army to come and save Isreal.
“The person that would save the Christians community and save Nigeria is not the person we are expecting. It is the person God will reveal to us in our prayers.
“We should pray and not predict and we should let God take control”, he said.
In attendance were Mr Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Vice Presidential candidate of PDP and Governor of Delta State, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa and Governor Sam Otorm of Benue State among others.