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In the last election, his party had 74,059 votes…
That is according to them, according to INEC.
His plans to ensure the next election is different
They rubbished the
entire democratic process. They stifled the voice of opposition and
eradicated any form of democracy that is a threat to them, as the
political party in power. This is a very peculiar country, but one
thing is very clear: the hand of the Almighty God has always being on
this country. The hand that brought Obasanjo, Yar’Adua and Jonathan,
that same hand will position Reverend Okotie and once that is done, you
will know that our nationhood has evolved.
Why God would allow the (electoral) crises to persist
Because there is a
word in the scripture that is called long suffering and he delays
justice because of the poor that will suffer. If we break into
hostilities, it is these rich men that will first abscond. So many
times, the Lord is merciful because of we, the people; not because he
wants to perpetuate those people in power, but because he is careful.
The prophecy concerning the PDP has gone forth and they are going to
fight each other and destroy each other because that is how evil is
terminated. We can’t fight them. They are too strong for us. So they
most fight each other.
His previous assertions that he would president in 2003 and 2007
That is what I’m
saying, that my time will come. I already quoted Abraham Lincoln in the
sense that I am so sure that it is a divine mandate. All I have to do
is wait for the right time and not compromise my philosophy or
compromise my faith and join a conglomerate of men and women who call
themselves political parties, whereas they are just a conscription of
men and women of anti-theatrical philosophies who have no ideological
connectivity and their only common denominator is their desire to annex
wealth. Because I believe in a Nigeria where truth reins; a fresh
Nigeria which our party symbolises in F-Faith, R-Responsibility,
E-Equality, S-Security and H-Hope. This is the philosophy upon which I
have erected the citadel of my confidence because I believe only a
fresh Nigerian can salvage this nation. All this cosmetic and
superficial activity that are going on by the ruling party is a journey
in futility. This will also drift us back to square one, which we have
always been.
How soon the drift will happen
If we perpetuate a
PDP government, which I think Nigeria cannot afford, we will be back to
square one and that is a recipe for extinction. The party is
incapacitated, ab initio. But the party has been ruling for 12 years I
am aware and it was necessary for Nigerians to reach a point of
self-examination and re-assessment of this slavery. Our leaders have
betrayed us on a large scale and it takes a while to come to that
realisation and global events, as seen in the angry youth protest in
Abuja as Nigerians are recognising what they have to do without anybody
galvanising them. It is an evolution. Mao Tse Tung once said if people
no longer fear your power, it is because another power is on its way
and that is what we are seeing here. I believe with all my heart that
we are seeing the last vestiges of this oppressive leadership of the
PDP. I believe our people are coming to a place where they are willing
to make the necessary sacrifice to emancipate themselves and that the
money politics that the PDP has played for so many years is gradually
frittering out and there is going to be an implosion within the party
that will totally fragment it to the extent that it will be totally
powerless.
His silence when activists were protesting for rule of law
I do not know the
kind of newspapers you read, but I made my opinion known and at some
point in time, I called for an interim government to be installed so
that the entire malady that surrounded the executive could be cleared
and we will move on. The nation was inundated by the soap opera that
transpired with incapacitation of late President Yar’Adua and even
though we had urged the PDP to declare his whereabouts and be
transparent, nobody paid attention and we did not want to sound
insensitive with the fact that the president is incapacitated and be
more interested in politics. So, the sentiment of it all was something
that PDP capitalised on. But it was not because we were not quick to
articulate our views on the impact.
How he intends to tackle problems such as corruption, unemployment and power
Let me put this in
proper context; campaigns have not begun. What I just did was to
articulate my desire to run for the office. We are not suppose to
engage in any campaign until INEC (Independent National Electoral
Commission) says so. I can only give you observations that I have made
concerning the things that I have seen in the country from a very
constructive view-point. I believe the reason why corruption has been
able to flourish is because there is an enabling environment. If you
want to incapacitate those who participate in corruption, you will have
to change the environment, not just engender punitive measures. It has
to be juxtaposed with moral instruction for there to be meaningful
change. For instance if you take a fish out of water, it cannot
function; if you take an evil man into heaven, he cannot function, so
there are certain mechanisms in government that make it possible for
this charlatans to operate and until we dismantle this mechanism,
corruption will (only) at best be tackled on the punitive level which
is where you have the EFCC and all of those things. The 10 commandments
didn’t even save Israel, not to talk about EFCC saving Nigeria. We also
need to understand that there is cooperation between these charlatans
and those who are in the supervisory role; this is a major
characteristic of the PDP as seen in the House of Representatives,
where the speaker was indicted some months ago and we are right back at
it. That is why I respect the former President, Olusegun Obasanjo,
because he was bold enough to address that. When I become president, we
will change the environment.
If you go back a
few years when Yar’Adua was installed as head of state, because they
had nothing to offer, they came with a nominal seven point agenda with
nothing on ground to corroborate the position. The laws of dialectical
materialism by Karl Marx, which involve having a concept called the
thesis, you find a concept that works against the thesis called the
anti-thesis, then both of them synthesize together to form what is
called synthesis which can be translated into chaos and this what PDP
does. They create chaos, then they get a group within the party to
oppose the chaos and then they resolve the problems within the two
groups and synthesize the third position, which is where we are headed
in the first place. So they create a problem and get a group of people
to fight it, like when they created the Yar’Adua problem. They create
that chaos and buy time using the diversionary tactics that makes
people then think; oh this is an emergencey situation whilst they have
nothing to offer.
Government is not
transparent in this country and they have refused to give room to the
fourth estate (journalism) to do what they are mentally meant to do.
God and the presidential system
The whole concept
of the presidential system comes from the bible, because God is our
law-giver; that is how you get the legislature; God is our judge, so
you have the judiciary; God is our King, you have the executive. That
is how it was patterned and it was devised as a concept of government.
We need a fourth concept that will articulate the plans on the purpose
of the government to the people. That is how the press came about. The
new Nigeria of our dreams that will soon transpire must be a government
of integrity. It must understand that Nigeria is no longer a pariah
nation, that we live in a millennium where the quest for innovation
knows no frontiers and that we are no longer isolated in some dark
continent. So, a Chris Okotie government will re-establish government
in its true definition, where the people are a part of it and know what
is going on.
His ability to build a structure that could win elections
If you take the
government of this nation in tandem, maybe from the civil war, you will
discover that there has always being a divine intervention at some
point and recent events corroborate my saying. Look at former
president, Olusegun Obasanjo who was out of government, incarcerated
for a phantom coup, from where he became the president of Nigeria. He
was not involved in any politics at that time, in terms of democratic
process, but he became the head of state. The late Yar’Adua, relatively
unknown with little or no quality pedigree more or less or his vice,
Goodluck Jonathan, probably known regionally, not at on the national
platform but today he is our President, because there is a divine
intervention in the affairs of this country. That is why it imperative
for a Chris Okotie to pontificate on the affairs of this country that
identifies him as a credible aspirant for that office; so that when the
opportunity presents itself, it will be easy to say this is the man.
Possibilities of merger with other political parties
Talks have already
commenced and, in due time, we will unveil our strategy. The talks have
always been on since as far back as the last two elections that I
contested, where some political parties approached me because of my
credibility. But I will not compromise my sense of purpose to give
Nigerians the right leadership by jumping at people who do not share
the same values as FRESH.
Adherence to
principles invokes respect, as all kind of overtures have come from
different political parties with most of them having leaders who do not
have the kind of intellectual capacity that is necessary for the kind
of government they are trying to put in place. But I have stayed with
my principle. I believe, just like Abraham Lincoln said, “I will study
and wait.”
What happens to his church if he becomes president
It will be bigger.
When God was sending Jesus to the world, he wanted to make him the
political leader of the world, not the spiritual leader. But for him to
be the political leader, he had to take the sins of the world through
his death. He will return as the governor, as stated in the bible, that
will rule with the rod, as a political leader. By this procedure, God
patterned Jesus to be a secular leader like Melchizedek during the time
of Abraham, so that Jesus can become both a spiritual leader and a
political leader. So, somebody like me, I am already a spiritual leader
and I will be a political leader because earth was given to man to
rule. Only a righteous government can exalt a nation.
Ethnicity and zoning formula in Nigerian political parties
We have gone
beyond that. Zoning is a PDP mechanism and anybody clamouring for these
issues cannot adduce evidence to substantiate that position. The best
election in this country was won by a Muslim-Muslim ticket, that
everyone across the nation voted for. Such clamour is a narrow
perspective of politicians who are unable by any sweat of their
imagination to acquire political recognition and so they think the only
way they can is to polarize the polity along religious and ethnic
divide. The process of galvanising ethnicity in political parties is
anachronistic, because the experience we have disproves that
philosophy. What Nigerians are looking for today is a credible
candidate, irrespective of where he/she is from, because both the
northerners and southerners will tell you that their leaders have
betrayed them. Zoning is the business of the PDP; a gargantuan
monstrosity and PDP is not Nigeria. I will run for the office of the
president, irrespective of the fact that Mr. Jonathan is also from the
South.
The experience of his divorce and second marriage Entering the
covenant of marriage is the highest possible level of spiritual
responsibility anybody can assume, because it authenticates the mystery
of the God head. I have found myself in a better place of understanding
which gives a conscious of responsibility for this life.