By Joseph Kingston
Cross River state chairman of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Bishop Emmah Isong, has warned politicians importing arms and machinery into the country for 2015 that it would not be the number of bullets they had that would make them win elections, but the number of people who would vote for them.
Isong stated this yesterday in Calabar shortly after an inaugural meeting of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Inter-Agency Advisory Committee, preparatory to the 2015 general elections.
The PFN boss, who was responding to a question on the arrest of 486 alleged Boko Haram members in Abia state on Monday by the military, berated politicians for what he described as “unnecessary destruction of lives through political thuggery” and wondered who the politicians would lord over if everybody was killed “because of politics.”
He said: “I know these arrests are part of political maneuvering. Politicians should wait for elections proper. I do not think INEC will count bombs and bullets to make politicians win elections.
“We should all unite and with one voice inform politicians that bombs and bullets shall not be counted at all. They should campaign for votes and not bombs, bullets, fire and brimstone.
“The government must do something about this. Nigerians should pray against such ugly development, but we should not fold our arms and watch people encroach into our privacy to destroy our peaceful lives.
“When 486 fighters are intercepted in the South, what do you think could happen if 486 fighters also invade the North? My prayer is that this would not tantamount to something that we all will not want to remember tomorrow.”
