We thank God for a peaceful
and successful gubernatorial election all over Osun state, yesterday 9th
August, 2014, with the results announced less than 24 hours later. We congratulate the INEC and the security forces
for a job very well done. We will like
to make the following comments, particularly, further to our rather intense pre-election
comments.
1. We believe without an iota
of doubts, that the outcome of the gubernatorial election is exactly what the
Lord wants.
2. We similarly have no doubts that the Lord knew
what the outcome would be, right from the beginning of the processes.
3. We are also firmly convinced that what the Lord asked us to do, identifying and
documenting critical issues affecting the Church, with respect to the policies
and dispositions of the incumbent, was not done in vain. It was an action that needed to be
implemented; and we can only be grateful that we are part of the Lord’s
limitless resources that He chose to mobilize to raise those issues at this point
in time.
4. We dare to believe that our little effort,
under the guidance of Him Who gave us the commission, and the various responses
to it within and without the Body of Christ, has accomplished what the Lord
would have it achieved. And the situation
has significantly changed from what it could have been without such efforts.
5. The issues involved have of course not ended
with the elections. As we pointed out
several times, the issues transcend whoever would emerge victorious at the elections. Even though it might appear to us that the
current outcome would require more demands of the Church, the key issue, as
Pastor Bosun Emmanuel rightly said in his Wake-up Call message to the Church in
Nigeria, is that we need to learn to develop and maintain the right priorities. Every member of the Church needs to learn to
appreciate Kingdom issues, and be ready to make sacrifices. The leadership of CAN/PFN would need to
develop effective mechanisms and platforms to connect with, and mobilize the
Church. (We will like to point out that possible foundations for such platforms and networks in SW Nigeria were initiated at the recently held Yoruba Christian Leaders Assembly, YCLA, at Ile-Ife)
6. All said and done, the
greater and even more urgent battle remains that for personal holiness, purity
and obedience in the lives of individual Christians as we await the coming of
the Lord Jesus.
7. Whether personally or corporately, Christians need to
take heed, watch, and pray for the days are extremely evil, and will only continue to worsen!
Eternal vigilance is the non-negotiable price for liberty (Mark 13:33, Rev. 12:12).
Finally we
congratulate the incoming governor Aregbesola and pray he will be a more
discerning and wiser governor than the incumbent, outgoing Aregbesola. We pray he too (like the increasing number of
traditional rulers and priests in Yorubaland who are now turning to the Lord
Jesus) will come to see the utter futility of idol worship; and learn to
distinguish between spiritual servitude on one hand, and loyalty to our
cherished cultural heritages on the other.
We thank the many who wrote to encourage us and affirm our efforts, as
well as those who wrote to express their reservations. As taught by Scriptures,
we can say with a clear conscience: “We are
unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.” Luke 17:10
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