President Goodluck Jonathan has urged Nigerians to continue to pray for politicians so that politicians will not sacrifice the lives of Nigerians because of personal ambition.
The President who spoke at the last Sunday of the year service by the Christ Apostolic Church, Area 1, Durumi, Abuja said “All that I will request of you is to continue to pray for politicians for God to guide us in our utterances and what we do so that we will not sacrifice the lives of Nigerians because of our ambitions.
“Nobody’s ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian. Pray for God to give us that wisdom and mind to make sure we conduct ourselves in a way that will not set the country ablaze because of our own personal ambitions.
“There are so many good Nigerians that can hold the offices we are occupying or aspiring to occupy. It is by God’s plan that we are here in positions of authority.
“None of us should begin to think that he is the best person to occupy any public office. There are a thousand and one Nigerians that are more qualified than those aspiring to occupy offices.
“The development of Nigeria is what all of us want. If every aspirant has the mind to develop the people, then you do not need to kill or maim people to get there.
“You do not need to kill the people you want to develop in order to get to the office you want except if you are aspiring for that office for a different reason.”
He also added that the country is facing a lot of challenges now; he said “We are facing a lot of challenges now as a nation. The challenges did not start today but somehow, instead of abating, the problems started increasing for one reason or the other.
“But I am convinced that it would have been worse than this but for your prayers. With the prayers you continue to offer to God, God will see us through.
“I always say that whenever I read the Bible, especially the Old Testament, particularly the journey of the Israelites from Egypt to the Promised Land, the kind of challenges they faced; their confrontations, the wars up to the days of King David, they were always fighting. You may need to ask, why should children of God continue to be fighting?
“I believe what is happening to us is not even as serious as sometimes the passages we read in the Bible and God saw them through.”