Prof Ben Onyeukwu NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT AND UNGODLY GOVERNANCE

NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT
AND UNGODLY GOVERNANCE:
Good governance is always a product of legitimate government, inspired by principles of godliness in godly politicians, as well as formed through legitimate means, devoid of rigging and political manoeuvring. This is the only type of government that carries the imprint and approval of the LORD GOD of heaven and earth.     In keeping with this DIVINE standards, the Holy Scripture  instructs every citizen to be loyal to civil authorities, noting that, there is no authority except from GOD, and that, those which exist, are by GOD'S appointment, and so one who resists the power, resists the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
   By way of definition, political governance is a specific way by which a political system is ruled. This implies that, godly governance could hold sway in government administered by godly people, whereas ungodly governance is likely to reign in the government of ungodly persons. For your information, the basic evidence of ungodly governance, is the absence of the rule-of-law in any political administration. Here, the Nigerian Government is specifically portrayed, if the allegations variously levelled against it, in recent times become positive. For instance, if the allegation that Nigerian Government is secretly sponsoring terrorism, or any genocidal movement, aimed at eliminating Christians in the country by those who are in power, then ungodly governance is established in the Nigerian State. Again, if the Nigerian State has deliberately deleted the Igbo history in its school curriculum as a way of subjugating the Igbo race, it becomes publishable that, the government of Nigeria carries the emblem of ungodly governance. Furthermore, if the allegation of the Nigerian Government trying to bribe the United States Congress, to cover up the alleged Christian genocide in the country becomes real, then the reputation of the country becomes destroyed by ungodly governance. Also, if the allegations that the Nigerian Government bribed the Finnish Government, as well as the Nigerian Judiciary, to imprison Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and Simon Ekpa, turn out to be true, it becomes obvious the Nigeria is taking a global lead, in ungodly governance.
   Having cited the above, it becomes timely to state that, in spite of the fact that GOD tells the citizens of every country to be subject to civil authorities, there is no rule that canvasses for such obedience, in absence of good governance. Rather, the Holy Scripture, also admonishes that, in the absence of the rule-of- law, "we ought to obey GOD rather than men". (See Acts 5:29 and Romans 13:1-7).