-Peter Obi Backtracks On Vigil – Says He Was Misread
The 2023 Labour Party, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, withdraws his recent statement about the church, stating he was misinterpreted.
You would recall that Peter Obi, while speaking during Honest Bunch podcast, he stated that night vigil should be turned into night shift so that people can be productive.
Since the podcast, the former Anambra State governor has come under heavy criticism following his statement.
However, according to a statement made by The Peter Obi Media Reach spokesman, Ibrahim Umar, he said revealed that was no such case of Mr Peter Obi calling for the dismantling if churches.
The statement partly read, “Our attention has been drawn to a huge twist in his recent media interview, saying erroneously that he called for the dismantling of churches in Nigeria.
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“By the headline given to the interview, the import of Obi’s message has been greatly overturned and grossly distorted to serve a mischievous end.
“The Labour Party leader is well known as a man of strong faith who has enormous respect and love for every religion and tried in the referenced interview to bring to Nigerians how religion can be more effective in their lives.
“Obi, in the interview, was merely underscoring what Apostle James said in ‘Faith without Works is unhelpful.’ When Obi said that he would turn night vigil into production night, he was only stressing the importance of worshipping God through work.
“Even Jesus Christ never picked any of his 12 disciples where they were praying but where they were working as fishermen and tax collectors, among others.
“What we are doing in Nigeria, which Obi’s interview is highlighting as wrong and should be discontinued, is exchanging work for prayer when the two should go together.
“There is no evidence in the scripture that Jesus blessed an idle person. The problem In some of Nigeria’s worship communities is that they are not following St James advisory that we should be doers of the words.”
-Peter Obi Backtracks On Vigil – Says He Was Misread
