A member of the House of Representatives, representing Akure South/ North federal constituency, Pastor Afe Olowookere, has vowed to expose any of his colleagues who makes attempt to embezzle public funds.
Olowookere said he cannot join the multitude to do evil, stressing that he would always be up to the task to discourage members of the Assembly from engaging in corruption.
Olowookere, who was the Chief Whip of the Ondo State House of Assembly during late Adebayo Adefarati’s regime between 1999 to 2003, was said to have exposed his colleagues then while trying to share an excess money of N24 million sent to the Assembly.
The federal lawmaker spoke with reporters shortly after his thanksgiving service at his church in Akure, the State Capital.
Olowokere said he would do more than what he had done at the State level if he found out that any of his colleagues involved in corruption.
On the Crisis at the National Assembly, Olowookere said efforts would be made to prevent the leadership crisis rocking the Assembly from destroying the All Progressives Party, APC.
He described the crisis as a minor disagreement among members of the same family that would soon be resolved.
The lawmaker said APC was already on top of the situation, assuring Nigerians that the issue would be over within the next few days.
He said: “The leadership crisis in the National Assembly is not a big deal as many people think. It is just like the morning dew that will soon be evaporated by the sun.
“It may look like a hard nut to crack to some people, but we will allow wisdom, compromise and inflexibility of positions to crack it for us in the interest of the country and her people.”
Olowookere, who urged Christians to participate in politics to rescue the country from the rot it had been plunged, noted that it was erroneous to think that politics was dirty.
“Good Christians are running away from politics because they say it is dirty. If you are a Christian or a pastor who discourages people from playing politics but fond of inviting corrupt public office holders to your church to chair fund raising programmes, you are a hypocrite.
“By the special grace of God, I am going to bring the fact that I am a pastor to bear in the National Assembly by discouraging my colleagues from doing anything I consider to be evil or wrong. I will not join the multitude to do evil,” Olowookere said.
He promised to give adequate and robust representation, saying pressing needs of his constituency would be tabled and discussed on the floor of the House with a view to ensuring that something concrete was done.
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