Aiyedogbon made this assertion while speaking at a recent press conference organised by the Catalyst For Global Peace and Justice Initiative (CPJ).
He further noted that although the movement is a positive development, there must be enough strategy and foot soldiers in all the nooks and crannies of the country. He remarked that when it comes to elections, there is a lot that needs to be in place.
Aiyedogbon, who is also the founder of Realm of Glory Church, Lagos, lamented that the unprecedented state and level of insecurity pervading every region and segment of the country due to the insincerity and the seeming cluelessness and ruthlessness of Nigeria’s present leaders.
He maintained that the country is going through a phase of an unpopular lockdown.
“Unknown to most people, the whole nation is actually now permanently under lockdown, which is in reality even worse than what was necessitated at the peak of the COVID-19 Pandemic. No thanks to the operations of bandits, herdsmen, terrorists, Boko-Haram, ISWAP, unknown Bishops with their unknown churches and diocese.”
“People can no longer travel by road, by rail, and even by air with the recent suspension of the operations of Dana Airlines and the self-imposed grounding of one of the airlines in the country due to the unfriendly environment. These have literally turned air travelers to refugees as they slumber like people in coma at the departure lounges of our various airports.
“Worse still is the current threat to ban commercial motorbikes (popularly known as ‘okada’) nationwide, and that was after the pump price of PMS has been clandestinely increased. With less and less commuting by road, by rail and traveling by air and with the proposed banning of ‘okada?’, what we have is a perfect recipe for complete or total lockdown,” he bemoaned.
The cleric called on Nigerians to vote out politicians who don’t have the interest of the country at heart with their permanent voters’ cards in the 2023 elections. He noted that the country’s populace is being subjected and traumatised with all forms of basic necessities in life such as food, water, shelter, security, electricity, healthcare, education, and every form of basic infrastructure, which are gotten easily in a modern society.
“It is worthy of serious contemplation that the same set of people who packaged, presented and promoted, with so much jamboree, this incumbent administration are the ones, who without any sense of shame, remorse or repentance, are now stooping below the level of every basic norm, morality and decency, to promote a reincarnated and rebranded caricature of their abysmal failure before us in what they dare call continuity.
“We dare not forget but recall with nostalgia, the fraudulent package of a phantom hope that promised us a glorious change in the year 2014/2015. A closer scrutiny of the health and their credentials, public behavior, insensitivity, hypocrisy, and arrogance of what is now known as the Same Faith Presidential Ticket’ of the ruling party will convince you without any iota or shadow of doubt that we are going from bad to worse”.
Other the other hand, the cleric faulted the All Progressive Congress’ Muslim-Muslim ticket. He described the idea as a gear of open desecration and a well-orchestrated grand conspiracy against the Christians and their faith.