A Christian cleric, Johnson Suleman has advised Nigerian politicians to “go home”, instead of going to court when they lose election.
“Politics is a game. When you lose, don’t go to court, go home,” Suleman, the founder, and pastor of the Omega Fire Ministries, said in a video being circulated on Twitter.
Suleman, popularly called Apostle Suleman, made the remark while preaching on Sunday in his church in Auchi, Edo state.
“Don’t go to court, go home. It is not your father’s property. If you don’t win today, you may win tomorrow,” he said.
The cleric, also said it was only God who knew who would be Nigeria’s president and advised Christians to do away with hatred that was borne out of politics.
“Many of you now in the church in different parties are now enemies because of political party. Not knowing that the players are friends, they will phone themselves and say, ‘What you did was wrong”. And the other one would say, ‘don’t worry, don’t worry, we will talk about it. We will meet in the mosque’.
“And you are there killing yourselves. It’s a game. Don’t die. Don’t kill yourselves.
“What this country needs is peace! Don’t abuse yourselves, let there be peace,” he said.
Abubakar who lost the country’s presidential election to the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, is heading to court to challenge the outcome of the election.
Some Nigerians, including Abubakar’s supporters, like Dele Momodu, the publisher of the Ovation magazine, have been trying to dissuade him from challenging the election’s result. Some have argued that a legal challenge will continue to create tension in the country.
But the former vice president has vowed to go ahead with the legal action. His supporters argue that such move will help the nation’s democratic process.
