The decisions Nigerians make in the general election of 2023 will define the country’s future, according to Dr. Paul Nwachukwu, emeritus national vice president of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria.
Nwachukwu added that the country’s next president would be chosen by God’s ministers, not by the regular people.
This was said by the clergyman on Sunday in Onitsha, Anambra State, at a celebration honoring his 75th birthday and 55th year as a cleric.
Nwachukwu, the Presiding Bishop of Grace of God Mission International, urged the populace to follow prophetic pronouncements and guidance while choosing the country’s future leader, noting that God had previously employed His prophets.
He emphasized that there was a divine plan to elect a person with a holy mandate to be the nation’s next president.
He asserted that the people’s refusal to make the proper decision would be the sole obstacle standing in the way of God’s plan to provide Nigeria with a leader who would represent His heart.
In order to go into the hinterlands and win people for Christ, he said, a ministry comprised of trained missionaries would be formed.
The Most Rev. Dr. Daniel Okoh, President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, who was also there, declared that Nigeria would emerge from its current predicament if the people wisely elect a president who fears God in the upcoming presidential election. According to Okoh, the electorate will have the best chance to elect the President of their choosing in the 2023 election.
He declared that he thought the Church would play a significant part in the election of the next President.
“The church is a non-partisan party in election matters, it has a duty to ensure the people are properly guided in the choice of leaders they choose. If Nigerians can unite and forge a common front, the choice to turn around this country is in their hands,” he added.
Bishop Nwachukwu was cited by the governor of Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, as one of the foundations of the state’s progress.
Soludo, who was represented by Dr. Alex Obiogbolu, his Special Adviser on Political Matters, praised the celebrant as a man of God who had produced outstanding leaders and embodied the core values of Christianity.
Bishop Maxwell Korie, the current National Vice President of the PFN in the South-East Zone, also made a contribution. He described Nwachukwu as a father figure to many Pentecostal preachers in Nigeria and abroad and said that the celebrant exemplified noble qualities and the grace of God through his heroic kingdom deeds and exemplary life.
Rev. Dr. William Okoye, General Overseer of All Christian Fellowship Mission, also mentioned Nwachukwu as the south east ‘s spiritual gatekeeper.
