Cardinal John Onaiyekan, the former Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, has accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of purposefully causing Nigerians to live in poverty in order to gain political dominance, according to a recent Symfoni TV video..CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
Onaiyekan added in a harsh statement that poverty is not God’s purpose and that using it as a weapon is “not only criminal but blasphemous.”He underlined that every Nigerian has enough thanks to God, and that mismanagement and greed are the root causes of all forms of poverty in the nation. “You are undermining God’s plan for humanity,” he said, adding that poverty is a governance failure rather than a problem that requires prayer and fasting. Onaiyekan questioned Nigeria’s democracy’s integrity, claiming that the ruling class does not actually want the people to elect their own leaders. He cautioned that the country’s future is in jeopardy because rising poverty has deterred civic engagement.CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>