SANMI ADEKOLA BLOG

Today, I write this piece at the risk of being called unprintable names, buffeted, mocked and condemned. But I would rather speak the truth and die than keep quiet and perish with the truth I know. Be that as it may, let me disabuse your mind that I'm not a pastor, a prophet or even a worker in any church, let alone being called a clergyman. At best, I'm a liberal christian among the Christians community. In fact, I will be the last person to defend a man of God (because I believe their God is capable enough to defend them if need be); and or hold forth for any religion, because I see religion as a way of life, and there are different media and platforms people can use to create a relationship with their Maker. However, it has become necessary to write this piece in light of the growing attack on the Christiandom and men of God in particular especially with respect to the 2019 General Election, by both Christians and non-Christians. It's not surprising that such atta

It's funny but equally extremely worrisome that after 24 hours of the #NigeriaDecides2019 , final collation and release of the results of the #Presidential and that of the @nassnigeria is yet to be done. This is a setback to what happened in 2015. Ordinarily, one would have expected an improvement from the @inecnigeria . We should be able to do better as a country. It's in this regards, all men of goodwill should see the digitalization of our electoral process as a way forward come 2023. While we wait, it's important that the gladiator parties @OfficialAPCNg and @OfficialPDPNig should not do anything to subvert the will of the people through any form of manipulation, politics should not be a do or die affairs as the two parties are making us believe. And one major way to reduce the pursuit of politics as a do or die affairs by politicians is to reduce the covert and overt material benefits attached to political offices. The second way is to change the present political s