The General Supervisor of ThankGod Awaited Liberation Ministry, Ikeja, Lagos, Prophet Francis Otukwu, has charged Nigerian youths and women to use their bulk vote in next year’s general election as the majority segment of the population to deliver Nigeria from its current depth of insecurity, criminality and moral depravity.

“Wake up and refuse to be used or bought over; as the majority component of the population, engage your voting power in 2023 to change the narrative, because as mothers and youths your future is on hold, and those responsible for your woes are not bothered. So, you cannot afford to be indifferent.

“Today, due to unprecedented rate of poverty, millions of Nigerian children go to bed without dinner, unemployment is at its peak, inflation is reported to have hit a 17-year high at 19 per cent, students of public varsities have been at home for six months, the naira has fallen from N180 a dollar to N700 per dollar in seven years, you cannot sleep with your two eyes closed; neither can you travel safely from the North to the South, East or West as robbers, kidnappers, bandits, herdsmen and faceless gunmen ply their lethal trade with impunity. It’s as bad as that, yet we are often assured that security agencies are in control.”

Obviously piqued by the state of affairs, Prophet Otukwu, who was speaking at the 16th anniversary of the ministry and birthday commemoration of the Son of man last Sunday, themed “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away”, bemoaned failure of the political class to tackle Nigeria’s existential challenges.

He noted that much as these problems are part of the signs of the end-time as foretold in the Bible which is global in its fulfillment and not peculiar to Nigeria, “the nagging issue is the inability of government to resolve any aspect of the problems,” he said, adding:

“Armed herdsmen have rendered farmers ineffective as they occupy farms and forests; bandits who operate in broad daylight invaded Nigeria’s elite Defence Academy, shot down an Air Force jet, ambushed and killed officers and men of the Brigade of Guards less than 50 kilometres from Aso Rock Villa, Abuja, and even threatened to abduct the President and a serving governor. What else does the nation’s security chiefs expect to appreciate the seriousness of insecurity in the country?”