From News Editor
As Christians celebrate Jesus Christ’s crucifixion today globally, a ranking member of the House of Representatives, Hon Femi Bamisile, has charged Nigerian leaders to always make sacrifices for the comfort of the poor masses.
Bamisile, who is representing Ekiti South Federal Constituency II, posited that no sacrifice is too much to pay by any leader for the comfort and wellbeing of the masses, the way Jesus paid the supreme price for the world to be at peace.
The former Ekiti Assembly’s speaker, gave the charge in a statement commemorating “Good Friday” and released by his Media Office in Abuja, on Friday.
The All Progressives Congress chieftain remarked that the death of Jesus Christ symbolised sacrifice, modesty and selfless services, which are virtues any leader must imbibe, for his leadership to be remarkable and indelible.
He said the entire world remembers the death of Jesus Christ on the strength of the lessons of joy, brotherhood, kindness and great sacrifice inherent in it, saying all these are absent in the modern day leadership, thereby throwing the world into chaos, economic hardship and corruption of monumental proportion.
“We should learn from the lessons inherent in the death of Jesus Christ. It stood for the most remarkable supreme price ever paid by any man for others to be saved.
“Jesus Christ had demonstrated how exemplary leadership must be. It must be sacrificial and corruption-free.
“No leader that leads his people like Jesus Christ would embezzle their Commonwealth, rule them by deceit, arrogance, selfishness, autocratic tendencies and subversive means. These are antithetical and outright negations to good leadership.
“Like Jesus did, let all of us at various levels of leadership exhibit sacrifice and place less priority on wealth acquisition. Material gains in leadership is against God’s commandment. Patterning our lives after Jesus will return Nigeria to the path of greatness.
“The greatest lesson in today’s remembrance is that, people won’t forget any leader that leads well the way Jesus Christ was being remembered today globally”, Bamisile stated.