President of the Nigerian Women in Clergy, Prophetess Nonnie Roberson has called for the cancellation of the 2015 elections, a call she said was in the best interest of the country.
She however said if the elections eventually hold, President Goodluck Jonathan will win, but many lives will be lost.
“I know the president is going to win the presidential election because I prayed and a lot others have prayed too.
The sceptre has not been taken away from him, but it is going to be very close and intense,” the prophetess told Vanguard in an interview.
“My fear is that there will be a lot of bloodshed,” she said. Prophetess Nonnie said she wished the government would yield to calls in favour of the cancellation of the 2015 elections, coming from some quarters, as going ahead with the election may be disastrous.
“I wish they can heed that call and cancel the elections because more people will die if we go ahead to conduct the election as scheduled. Even in the course of the electioneering campaigns, people will die,” she predicted.
She however said her group, Women in Clergy, has been praying and fasting, but noted that faith without work is dead. So, “we are getting involved. We are working with a lot of female aspirants, trying to encourage and push them. The next thing is to embark on a mass sensitisation project to tell Nigerians what is expected of them. Votes will count this time around; so we will encourage people to vote based on their individual conviction. We will tell them to collect their money and rice if they bring them, but vote your conscience.
“We have also been able to set up our zonal bodies with strong women of God taking charge of the zones.
They are organising and talking and very soon, the state and local government chapters will be up and running. We will not fold our arms and watch things go the same way it has always gone.
It is no longer business as usual,” Roberson said.
Commenting on the wanton destruction of lives and properties by terrorist group Boko Haram, and the non-release of the Chibok girls, who were abducted on April 14, the clergy woman said that the country is going through a herculean time.
“We are in crisis as a nation; whether you like it or not and as a Christian organization, we have come to recognize that this is not just about prayers as we have earnestly done, so we [Women in Clergy] decided to travel up north to access the situation ourselves. With what we saw and heard, we discovered that those of us in Abuja and those in the southern part of the country don’t even know what is really going on.
“Nigeria is in a state of war and the girl child and the womenfolk are the most affected. I believe it is high time Nigerians really understood what is going on.
Most times, if it’s not happening in your backyard, you feel it is nothing. But the reality is that it is gradually coming down home.
If something is not urgently done, these insurgents will infiltrate every part of the country,” she said.
She lamented the incessant killing, adding that most of the politicians who have not done what they should do, giving rise to the kind of violence we are witnessing today, do not even have their children in the country.
They are hardly affected by such violence.
“I am tired of seeing children hacked to death or watching their parents being beheaded and killed in cold blood.
For how long are we going to have these killings go on.
The irony is that most of these big men and big time politicians don’t have their children here.
They also go around with armoured vehicles with a retinue of security details.
So these things don’t affect them.
It is the everyday man on the street, who is struggling to make a living that is affected.
“The issue of unemployment is also there. I keep reading on a daily basis that jobs are being created, but where are the jobs they created? I have loads of youths around me and the biggest problem they have is unemployment. And as we know, an idle mind is the devils workshop.
These young people are easily lured into crimes because they believe they have to survive.
“It will interest you to know that even Christians are being recruited by Boko Haram because they have nothing to do.
If they are given money, they are ready to go. It is just so sad,” the prophetess lamented.
She therefore called on the government to change its approach in fighting terrorism in the country, as it is apparent that the current approach is not working.
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