Rev Fr Chinenye Oluoma, a well-known Nigerian Catholic priest, has criticized Nigerians, particularly the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, of adopting a negative mindset that impedes progress and development.
In a video released on his verified Facebook page on Monday, Oluoma stated that a bad attitude can prevent a nation from entering its promised land, no matter how much the people pray.
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, conducts elections in Nigeria using university senior teachers. They act as return officers.
Using ASUU as an example, the cleric decried how members of the union would assist politicians in rigging elections and then complain about the poor state of public colleges, blaming it on a lousy attitude.
“The wrong attitude can keep you from entering the promised land,” he stated. We can pray powerfully and move mountains with our prayers, but our attitude is what hinders us from entering the promised land.
“Look at professors; we’ll have an ASUU strike for almost a year, but professors will come and read riot acts and may want to strike so that the government will do this; the government must do this.” It will be the same professors who will write incorrect results.
“The same professors that the government will use to rig elections, politicians will use to rig elections, universities will be in trouble tomorrow, and they will complain.” The wrong attitude.
“Let’s see if we can help them rig elections…Will they be able to recover their money if your education budget is supposed to be N100 billion and they paid you to rig elections?
“If they bribed you with N50b, maybe they’ll throw N30b at you.”
