Politicians hearing from God, who’s fooling who?

June 9, 2014 by Olabisi Deji-Folutile

It’s amazing how some people can easily shift  from being full time politicians to full time Christians or whatever religion they claim to profess at the onset of election campaigns. To  such politicians, no one, including God, matters once  elected into one position or the other. Their common refrain is usually ‘We’ re busy, we hold meetings everyday and there is hardly anytime left for religious activities.’ But immediately their tenure is about to expire, they suddenly re-discover God.
That is when you see them in  all kinds of religious houses. You then wonder whether  their highly tight schedules  shrank to accommodate God  or daily hours    extended  to serve their interests. They pontificate and say all sorts of rubbish to link themselves to God forgetting that there is God  ooo.. You hear them   telling anyone that cares to listen  that God is asking  them to either re-contest or  contest for  bigger positions  after  due consultations with Him. It doesn’t matter if they are being tried  for theft,   corruption, murder or any other despicable criminal offence. Some will even publicly claim that  God has  assured them of victory. Interestingly,  some people believe them. That shouldn’t surprise anyone especially  in a religious environment like ours  where most people act as zombie.
I laugh at them. They think they can just use God’s name to legitimize their selfish and inordinate  ambition.  One of them who  defected from one political party to another  simply because he wanted to become a governor at all cost once assured his supporters that he heard from God that he would be the next governor of a state in the South West. Even after analyzing the situation and telling his supporters that their leader had no chance of being nominated as the flag bearer of his party for the election not to talk of becoming governor, they didn’t believe.  Well as  predicted, he was not even nominated by  his party as a governorship candidate to contest in an election.  So who is fooling who? There is another Speaker in one of the South West states now telling the state assembly staff members   that  God has instructed  him to contest as governor. Very  soon, we will know who is speaking  whether it is God or  his inordinate ambition.
But for now, let politicians know that God is not mocked. In fact,  they should know that they are too far from this  God who they can’t obey even when he gives them   simple instructions such as don’t steal or don’t kill. He doesn’t waste his time on disobedient folks. And even if he is loving to a fault, he won’t want to sanction another round of looting and embezzlement of public funds and the murder of his creatures by any heartless politician.