Nigeria: Obasanjo Urges Decent Persons to Join Politics

17 February 2014

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo Sunday urged decent persons in the country to join politics, saying that the people currently in leadership positions do not have the fear of God in them. Obasanjo also declared that politics was not for the ungodly people, stressing that Nigerians with the fear of God need to be in politics in order to correct the wrongs in the polity.

He added that it was a fallacy in some quarters that good Christians should not be in politics.

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