BY FOLASHADE KEHINDE
FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo has advised Nigerians to remember that everything does not start and end on earth.
He said the situation in the country currently did not suggest that Nigerians were preparing for the Kingdom of God, which should, ideally, be a priority.
The former President, who spoke, on Saturday, as the Guest of Honour at the dedication of the St. Moses Orimolade Holy Land, the Cenotaph of the C&S Founder, reminded Christians that there would always be a day of reckoning.
“The situation we have in the country today does not show we are preparing for the kingdom of God, but we have to be prepared,” he noted.
Reacting to a reminder at the event that he (Obasanjo) had, through an intervention as Military Head of State, made the preservation of the tomb of the Founder of the C&S Church, St. Moses Orimolade, possible, the former President said he was happy that the action he took then had paved the way for what they were doing today.
The tomb, located at the Ojokoro area would have been removed during the construction of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, but Obasanjo’s intervention reportedly helped to avoid that.
Obasanjo said, “When I was told the road work would affect the tomb of Baba Orimolade and even the church set up there in his memory, I agreed that the road was bent to accommodate the preservation of the tomb and the church.
“If I had insisted that the road should not be bent or the contractor insisted, and I agreed, the body of Orimolade would have been exhumed and the church might not be here.
“The action I took in the past, I didn’t know it would result in what we are witnessing today and this edifice we are dedicating being here.”
Advising Christians on expected conduct, the former President said, “There is always a day of reckoning. Christianity was brought to us and many of our people made great contributions and they are unsung heroes now.
“Missionaries came but we have our own missionaries and leaders and Moses Orimolade was one of them.”
