The Redeemed Christian Church of God says its newly created Office of Directorate of Politics and Governance has nothing to do with Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) or any person who may have political ambition in 2023.
RCCG Head of Media and Public Relations, Pastor Olaitan Olubiyi, said this in a telephone chat with reporters on Friday.
The politics directorate of the church was created to sensitise members of the church for active political participation in the 2023 general elections.
Olubiyi also said RCCG has been organizing political awareness for its members since the transition from military to civil rule in 1999 and there was nothing new about the development.
According to him, Christians cannot afford to act ignorantly by staying off politics because the choice of political leadership affects the entire wellbeing of any people.
He further advised other churches in Nigeria and elsewhere to emulate the activities of the church by sensitising their members to be politically involved.
The RCCG spokesman said, “Nothing is connecting Osinbajo with the directorate; RCCG has been mobilising, creating political awareness long since transitioning from military to civil rule. RCCG has made it a policy to educate its members on political education – get voter cards, no violence.
“The directorate has nothing to do with Osinbajo or anybody. I don’t know why people are linking something the church has been doing which every organisation should be doing to him.”
