We didn’t vote for GOD, Mr. Vice-President

The Take it Back Movement read with incredulity the statement credited to the Vice-President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, in which he was quoted as saying that he has handed the affairs of the country to God.

In the statement, the VP was reported to have said: “We have committed the nation into God’s hand and we believe we will begin to see the fruits of that prayer beginning from this moment.” – source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/we-ve-committed-nigeria-to-god-says-osinbajo/

We would like to urge the Vice President to stop invoking the name of God in vain.
It is quite sad and unfortunate that in this age, our officials continue to bamboozle citizens with the invocation of the Almighty God.

We urge the Vice-president to respect the constitutional provision of separating religion from the affairs of State.

Our country is blessed with highly competent religious leaders who are very capable of taking good care of our religious cum spiritual needs, and we take great exceptions to our political leaders using the convenient cloak of religion to mask their failures and incompetence.

Nigerians voted for people who told them that they have the answers to their economic, security, and social problems, thus fulfilling their part of what we considered to be a social contract.

For an elected official to turn around and tell them that he has committed their affairs to God is dishonest, to say the least. Such leader has broken his part of the bargain!

We would like to ask the Vice President why Nigerian leaders never consider the need to commit their own affairs into the hands of God and needed divine intervention only when they have to provide amenities and services for the ordinary people.

Nigerians do not one see their leaders praying or supplicating before awarding themselves fantastic salaries and other emoluments!

Nigerians do not see their elected leaders begging God for security – they go around with heavily-armed policemen and soldiers. They don’t see their leaders sleeping in darkness – their palaces are equipped with state-of-the-art generators. Citizens see their president going for extended medical care in foreign countries while their Vice-President tells them that he has committed their affairs to God.

This is hypocrisy of the highest order!

Some questions for Professor Osinbajo:
Do Nigerians really need the involvement of the Almighty God in order to grow the food that we eat?
Do we need the intercessions of Angels to solve our erratic water and electricity supply problems?
Do citizens really need to bend knees and pray before they can be provided with adequate telecommunication services?
Does Nigeria need to pray before paid officials desilt our choked gutters and clean our dirty streets?
Why do Nigerians need to pray before their government will protect them?

With Defence taking up the largest chunk of their budget (N733.30billion was allocated as recurrent to Defence and the Interior Ministries, plus a further N208.26 as Capital expenditure), why are Nigerians being asked to wait for God before they can feel safe and secured in their homes?

Why are our leaders keeping a ten-plane Presidential Fleet when our nation lacks a National Carrier?

It was one of our greatest writers, Ola Rotimi who wrote the classic, “The gods are not to blame.”

By endowing us with vast mineral wealth, the Almighty God has certainly done His best for us. Our officials should stop throwing sands into our eyes by telling us about committing our affairs into the hands of God.

It is quite hypocritical for our state officials who continue to live far and above the poverty line, they set for the rest of us, to tell us about committing our affairs into the hands of God.

If our dear leaders enjoy all modern comforts without the intervention of God, they have no business pulling the wool over eyes by asking us to wait for God in order to enjoy what is considered basic in most other countries.


Femi Akomolafe
Media Consultant, TakeitBack Movement/Sowore 2019

It was one of our greatest writers, Ola Rotimi who wrote the classic, “The gods are not to blame.” 


On point

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Handling the state of the nation to God istead of acting has been the 3rd stanza of Nigeria's anthem for a very long time. God has given to us in this country what other countries would kill to have, buh instead of us to use our intellect and make use of this resources in a productive way, we gladly resort back to god to descend from heaven and help in the development of the nation.

Good one from Sowore..