Barrister Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, Governor of Rivers State, is spending more time in the church for whatever reason than he is spending time in the Government House, Port Harcourt.
His occupation ought to have been to distract the masses with pictures from his government development sites and not the pictures of pastors and congregants he had visited their churches. Wike’s new found love of attending church per minute is to distract attention from important things.
He will continue to cover up himself with this activity knowing that the ignorant masses love even it, even if a priest defecates in the church. His church activities are to discredit anything that is drawing attention to important issues against him.
I’m not sure which ‘God’ the world is worshiping in the recent times if every move Wike made in the church must be advertised, even the donations he had made. If Wike is too godly as he wants the world to believe, he needs not send up pictures from the pulpit, the communities he would touch with developments would.
I’m being critical when any public office holder is deafening our ears with his or her church activities, as Wike is doing. Reason being that many in the past that even showed us the pictures of big cross they carried in the church, did not show us that they were good.
The future of Rivers State rests in the hands of Wike as the governor, not in the hands of the local churches he has been attending. It is a certain death of any nation that cannot separate Church and State. That Wike is now a Born Again should be his personal sacrifice and, not the state.
Wike should teach the state how to be good citizens and not how to be a governor from the pulpit. The later is not patriotism. Good governance is better and more helpful than pictures of the governor in the church.
Although, for ages we know that rulers like Wike regard religion as a useful tool to misdirect the masses, when the wise knows that religion is false, as against the common people’s belief of it as true.
-Odimegwu Onwumere, Poet/Writer, Rivers State.
