Thursday, May 22, 2025 - Pastor Sam Adeyemi has lamented the lack of empathy and compassion among some Nigerian leaders saying that they have lost touch with the reality of the poor in the country.
While speaking on Channels TV on Thursday, May 22, Adeyemi,
who is the Senior Pastor of Daystar Christian Centre (DCC), said that these
leaders now find it difficult to lead the people in the right direction because
they are now occupied with how to retain power rather than how to better the
lives of the citizens.
According to him, the fear of losing power also contributes
to why most of the leaders are cross-carpeting between political parties.
“Some of our
leaders, it is even obvious from the way they speak, that they have lost touch
with the reality of the poor, they have no empathy, no compassion. So, we want
to create an environment that will make it possible for those in leadership to
lead us in the right directions to make the right decisions.
Some of them are being threatened that they would lose their next election, that is what they are defecting. So their own survival is being threatened.”he said
Adeyemi suggested that the Nigerian political scene is breeding leaders who are not in touch with realities because rather than people deciding who leads them, political godfathers now do.
He said that the way these leaders rise to power causes them
to become scandalous, forgetting the people.
“I wish we
had the perfect scenario that it is the citizens that actually elected people
but we have seen over the years the power of the godfathers in our politics.
They have built their influence over many years.
These are
educated people, these are highly intelligent people, some of our best, it is
just that in the process of wanting to succeed in this Nigeria, they bent here
and bent there and by the time they arrive at the top that they wanted to go,
they have become crooked.'' he said
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