The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has said it is mobilising over 600,000 of its members in Rivers State to vote for in the 2027 general election in the state.
PFN chairman in the state, Rev (Dr) Minaibi Dagogo-Jack, disclosed this while briefing journalists in Port Harcourt yesterday shortly after the conclusion of a three-day summit organised by the group.
Dagogo-Jack, who described what is being practiced in Nigeria as “confusion” and not democracy, called on political leaders to learn how to obey the rule of law.
“We pentecostals in Rivers State are not joking. We decided to convoke this programme to create awareness, to seek the face of God in order to chat a way forward through a peaceful electioneering process.
“And also to tell our people and to prepare their mind that we are looking at producing the next elected leaders of the state.
“Rivers State has 23 local government areas and we are looking at producing more than 20,000 votes from each of the 21 LGAs and more than 40,000 votes to cut across the other two LGAs, making it 23 LGAs.
“We are mobilising in order to have more than 600,000 votes. Having taken a critical look at the result of the last general election, Rivers State was able to produce a little over 200,000 votes for the current president. That, to us, is not enough.
“The pentecostal churches in particular are large enough. We have the numerical strength to tell these politicians that there is Balm in Gilead; to tell these politicians who ordinarily gave a little over 200,000 votes alone, out of 3.5million registered voters in Rivers State.
“Like I always said, they were not able to produce 10 percent for the president of Nigeria and yet, they are causing trouble here and there in Rivers State and this is too bad. The church cannot continue to sleep and allow our children to die,” he said.
