“Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.” (Micah 7:8; Esv).

Politicians are in the business of politics. Pastors are in the business of preserving lives for an eternity in GOD’s Kingdom. The meeting point of Pastors and Politicians is ‘The People’: whom  they are called or elected to serve.

And The People are those Human Beings who were created by the Omniscient GOD. It is that same GOD who also created the world that we are living in.

The Pastor is an agent of GOD for the people. A pastor who joins with the political class against the people has denied the faith. He is become worse than an infidel.

The Politician is supposed to be an agent of the people and who works for the good of the people who chose him/her.

It is in the interest of Politicians to take cognizance of what GOD says in the Bible: That “Evil will never leave the house of one who pays back evil for good’’ (Proverbs 17:13; NIV)

This write up will be in two sections. And will be from the perspective of Christian Counselor and Spiritual Warrior.

CLARITY

I have refrained from publicly expressing negative views on the political climate in Nigeria. But with resent happenings, I would fail as an agent of GOD if I do not speak out.

The evolution of political culture in Nigeria has made it clear that some politicians seek public office for purely selfish reasons. These Political-Terrorists go into politics with a mind that is set to “STEAL”.  They have shamelessly stolen our refineries, our rubber plantations, our roads, our schools, our hospitals as well as anything they can steal.

They think their children will enjoy the ill-gotten wealth they have amassed.  That is never going to happen unless they repent and restore back all they stole.

The lack of knowledge about spiritual principles causes people to misbehave and then suffer regrettably for their ignorance.

The spiritual controls the physical. There are laws/ working principles that the universe operate on. And our actions; whether in ignorance or deliberately activates such laws.

For example, when Adam and Eve acted in disobedience, the law of deterioration was activated. That is what the Bible in Romans 8 refers to as the Law of sin and death.

These Political-Terrorists are so unaware that when they invest stolen things into their family, they compromise the future of their family. They used the stolen wealth to give their family the good life without knowing that they have activated the curse of destruction into their bloodline. They think they are giving their family and edge over others. Instead they made outcasts.

That is the reason most of their children are morally corrupt. The great majority of those kids have mental health issues. Some of the ones who were sent overseas to study ended up living riotously and wasting away as drug users and alcoholics. Those that have grown up have become irresponsible adults. They are just wasting away organizing sex-orgies; doing drugs and causing problem for law abiding citizens.

Do these political-terrorists think they have stolen from the ‘national-cake’; whatever that is? NO! They have only succeeded in stealing the future of their offspring. They have enabled their families to never experience the joy of having life in all its fullness.

These Political-Terrorists need to search their souls. They have to stop the tide of destruction they have unleashed on their families.

They are to be pitied, and interceded for so that they would realize their wrong ways and repent.

But before these Political Terrorists can become the ‘Change-agent’ of Nigeria; let them first change their ‘mind-set; return to GOD and restructure their families

There is also another group of politicians who see themselves as Power Brokers.

The Political Power-Brokers are the insidious political class who deliberately affect the distribution of political or economic power by intrigue or by exerting influence.

They are the evil geniuses among the politicians. And they think that power and the distribution of power is their birth-right.   They are the antithesis of GOD. They stand against GOD to direct the affairs of Humans.

This brings to my mind the story of Nebuchadnezzar.

Nebuchadnezzar was a king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, who reigned c. 605 BC – 562 BC. Biblical records and secular history both agree that Nebuchadnezzar was an ambitious, brutal and powerful king. He was warned in a dream that he had to humble himself and recognize that his power, wealth and influence were from GOD and not his own ability.

But rather unfortunately, Nebuchadnezzar took no cognizance of the warning of that dream. And so, GOD judged him as HE had declared and Nebuchadnezzar went insane for seven (7) years.

The Good News is that when Nebuchadnezzar’s sanity was restored, he finally humbled himself before GOD.

No one who stands against GOD or who plays at being GOD can do that for long. The SOVEREIGN LORD, who is also the RIGHTEOUS JUDGE of the universe eventually, intervenes to restore order.

Even though it is said that “Politics is war without bloodshed”; the various classes of politicians are willing to kill, maim and steal for their ungodly ambition.

Every day, people are dying because of the selfish and self-centeredness of the political class.

These past months Nigerians have been experiencing the down-side of ‘change’.

Power supply went from epileptic to zero.

Pump stations shut their pumps.

The prices of Food-stuffs increased very alarmingly.

RESILIENCE & INGENUITY OF NIGERIANS

Nigerians are very resilient and ingenious.

When the power sector degenerated to epileptic power supply, the Nigerian Business people cashed-in on it by importing power–generator sets.  What was supposed to be back-up has now become the accepted norm. The politicians and their stooges in the federal ministries hijacked the importation of generators!

Because of the multi-billion dollars profit involved, they abandoned the public power sector: And subtly negates any attempt by any administration to rehabilitate the power sector.

When the water corporation failed; dredging of personal or community boreholes became expedient.  Business people went into importation of water pumps and water treatment plants.

And then we started having bagged and bottled water today.  No more public water because that would interfere with the ‘cut’ the politicians and bureaucrats are getting from the business community.

And then the fuel crises began. It took a while before the general public realized that our refineries were sabotaged so that the ruling class could build their own refineries and thus control the ‘oil sector’.

The scenario is something like this:

Fuel is taken out of the country to be refined in refineries owned by some of the ‘ruling classes, and subsidized from the national coffers. Heads or tails they win.

When they said they were going to import fuel, gullible Nigerians were very happy: without realizing that the ‘ruling class has betrayed our trust and were enriching themselves.

The few Nigerians who raised their voices were hunted down, imprisoned and executed secretly. Others went into exile. While some others who could not afford living in exile, took to the river creeks to fight their cause.

Without power, nearly everything runs to a standstill.

These past months, the fuel crises reared its ugly head again. The queues have become longer. The pump-stations are not selling. The ‘marketers’ are on the warpath. And some of the political class are hiding behind the ‘marketers’ because they own those companies.

When there is no fuel, we can’t pump water. And these boreholes have water pumps that run on electricity.

And the fuel stations are not selling

You can begin to imagine the scenario of what is still ongoing.  Both generators and pumping machines are powered by electricity. The electricity companies are not generating enough power: And there is no fuel to power both the generators and pumping machines.

Simply put there is no light and water. And there is no fuel for our cars as well.

Added to which, the prices of general goods and food items are no longer affordable.

In some communities, robbers are taking advantage of the darkness to raid homes and rape women and children.

And worse still, people have to trek long distance to get to work for two major reasons.

1. The more obvious one – no fuel in their cars.
2. Some had fuel but the roads are in chaos.

The cars that queue up for fuel obstructs traffic and the traffic –controllers are themselves caught up in the mess of having to walk long distance to the work-place..

As if that in itself is not stressful enough, people have to either dismantle their generator’s fuel tank, or push the generator itself to queue up for fuel. The other alternative is to stay in darkness.

People are cut-off because phone batteries drained out and they are not able to power it up.

Thank GOD that at the height of these chaotic situations, schools went on Easter Break. And the kids were home or else the situation would have exploded.

Nigerians do not expect much from their political leaders really. We are aware that the majority of them have ungodly ambitions.

It is the absolute disregard for humanity that irks.

How can a person steal billions of dollars in one life-time? Haba!

And then one dreamer wants to tamper with fuel subsidy. Not in this administration. That is a no-go area. Why would anyone think of removing fuel-subsidy?

What have Nigerians benefitted from the past and present various administrations? We are yet to experience the gains of democracy.

There are no structures for public health services; water and power supplies are non-existent; roads are death-traps: schools are in bad shape and security is at its lowest. Kidnappings, armed robbery and crimes against women are increasing at a very alarming rate.

In fact, the various political classes have robbed the people silly.

Fuel subsidy is our consolation. It helps us to keep going past the thieving political classes. And the removal will introduce unbearable hardships on the populace and something will crack.

The underlying tension is gradually building up. Caution should be exercised.

The removal of fuel-subsidy is not going remove the corruption in the system.

Fuel subsidy should be increased rather than removed, after all, this Administration claims to have recovered ‘stolen money’ One good thing came out of the crises. The terrorists too have no fuel and that has restricted their movements.

Nigerians are the most resilient people in the universe. We are able to adapt to any situation because our fall back is GOD.

The majority of Christians in Nigeria are prayer warriors. Church attendance has its all-time high during public crises.

I pray GOD intervenes and come speedily to our aid in CHRIST’s name.

The problems of Nigeria is beyond the power of any one ‘person’ or ‘group of persons’ who thought or still ‘thinks’ they would ‘change’ the system overnight.

ANOTHER PLAYER IN THE POLITICAL SCENE

Past administrations failed because they could not ‘change’ the Established Bureaucrats

The Established Bureaucrats are actually terrorists in disguise. And are stooges of past, past and past ex-military and political power-brokers. They are more secret than the most secret-secret societies you have heard of.

They subtly stand against anything that is not in the interest of persons or individuals they represent. Their power is their invisibility. They are nameless and faceless. Although they are invisible in their visibility, they are not INVINCIBLE.

You will find these Established Bureaucrats in the federal and state civil services, and in the government corporations and parastatals. Some of them are career civil-servants. And they are going to be there till they retire or are disfavored by their benefactors.

These Established Bureaucrats are so influential that they can disable projects and render administrations impotent. They are a force to be reckoned with.

That notwithstanding, their power base can be broken by a people who makes the ALMIGHTY GOD their HELPER

The sad thing is that these Political Terrorists, Political Power-Brokers and Established Bureaucrats are Nigerians: they are family, people we respect and want to be like.

So then, why can’t we confront them?

Because, hardship has eroded values from the grassroots levels of home, church, mosque and school.

Our parents, religious leaders and school heads have failed us. The great majority of them have become puppets to Political Terrorists, Political Power-brokers and the Established Bureaucrats. They have lost their calling and conscience to the pursuit of wealth and fame.

Corruption has become a culture of the people; it has become so ingrained in the very fabrics of the society. It would take centuries of reorientation, re-indoctrination and reconditioning to flush it out, unless GOD supernaturally intervenes.

Present Administration primarily cannot solve these problems bedeviling our people.

We are in dire need of GOD’s Divine intervention.

But then, GOD only intervenes through willing humans such as you and I. We can make a difference by our prayers. And then live exemplary life-styles as well as restore the teaching of Godly values in our home.

Change is not a political slogan but a process through which something becomes different.

I plead the speaking blood of JESUS CHRIST over Nigeria. I come against all the forces of evil that have united to spoil Nigeria. As an Oracle of the MOST HIGH GOD, I declare they are frustrated and all their devices are to self-destruct now.

I affirm that the process of change commences with us as parents, religious leaders and that it would cut across all the various strata of our society.

I proclaim that the power-base of the evils in our land is being destroyed: And those who are in bondage to wicked and mean masters are being delivered.

I declare that Nigeria is vomiting those who have stolen from us and have sold-out the Nation to their satanic associates. They are being exposed, disgraced and their connections and liaisons are destroyed as well.

From today, the agreements, bonds and covenants between groups, secret societies, parties and all other related associations that have united to defraud, degrade, and dehumanize Nigeria and Nigerians; whoever they maybe, whatever their rank-position or authority: They are all to start functioning in confusion, division, exposures, betrayals and renunciations in CHRIST Omnipotent name.

It is written that GOD confirms and performs the counsel of HIS messenger and servant. It is done. Nigeria will rise and thrive again. “Amein” – hephzibah christly

To be continued