Nigeria Election: Lessons for the Church
The Nigerian elections have come and gone. Nigeria, the largest democracy in Africa, conducted its Presidential and National Assembly elections on February 25, 2023, and Governor and State Assembly elections on March 18, 2023. However, the outcome of the elections became highly controversial, resulting in outrage among the opposition and the general population. Eighteen political parties presented candidates for the presidential elections. Of the 18, three were the major contenders: Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Gregory Obi, candidate of the Labor Party (LP) A lot of unsavoury developments have trailed the elections across the country. The same old stories of religion, ethnicity, violence, rigging, blackmail, terror and killing played out during the campaigns and during the election days across the country. What are the lessons for the church:- The first lesson ...