Ejiofor criticises Charismatic bishops over Tinubu endorsement

However, he said the issue went beyond the appearance of the regalia to the more serious question of what would happen to the moral authority of the Church if ecclesiastical endorsement became available for partisan political purposes.

Ejiofor said while the participants were entitled to their assessment of the government, there was a distinction between individual Christians exercising their civic rights and an ecclesiastical institution or persons presenting themselves with episcopal authority using the Church’s influence for partisan political mobilisation.“What I find profoundly disturbing, however, is the manner in which ecclesiastical identity and the symbolic authority of the episcopacy were apparently mobilised and deployed as an instrument of partisan political endorsement, particularly at a time when the formal electioneering campaign has not even commenced,” he said.