The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian
Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye met with the presidential
candidate and vice presidential candidate of the APC, Muhammadu Buhari
and Yemi Osinbajo, at the Lagos annual thanksgiving service put together
by Governor Babatunde Fashola.
In the spirit of 2015 election, he reiterated his
call on members to ensure that they get their permanent voter cards,
PVCs, to enable them exercise their civic responsibility during next
month’s general elections.
Speaking on Friday night, on the theme, ‘The Burden
Bearer’, during the church monthly Holy Ghost Service held at the
Redemption Camp, Adeboye said the voter card is the only power the
people have during election.
The man of
God, popularly called Daddy G.O., reminded the congregation that everyone
was expected to collect and bring his/her card to the church on the
first Sunday of January, saying that parish pastors will request for it.
He advised members who have not collected their PVC to go to the nearest INEC collection centre for it.
Stressing
the importance of the PVC, the cleric admonished those who were unable
to find their own to re-register for it, noting that it is very crucial.
“You must get it even if it means spending the whole day at the local
government because without the card, you cannot vote,” Adeboye said.
“On the first Sunday of the year, come to church with your voter card as your pastors will ask for it. Take
thanksgiving service seriously this year. Do not take it as what the
little ones should do. How old are you in the presence of Almighty
God?”, the G.O. said.
Enumerating three types of burden to include
physical burden, material burden and marital burden, Adeboye described
burden as a heavy load that attaches itself to one and such load goes
with the person wherever he or she goes, saying God, the Burden Bearer,
is one that comes along and help one to carry a burden.
On the
conditions to meet the Burden Bearer and what is expected when such
burden is lifted, he said, one must admit he has a burden, willing to be
helped and cry to the Bearer for help.