Church tasks Tinubu, APC on level-playing field in 2027 
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Segun Sowunmi, has warned that the country’s presidency has, for some time, appeared like a sickbay for old people. 
 
However, as Nigeria prepares for another round of electioneering across all levels, the Supreme Head of the Cherubim & Seraphim Unification Church of Nigeria, Emmanuel Alogbo, charged President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to provide a level-playing field for all political actors in the country, just as he urged politicians to refrain from violence and politics of bitterness.
 
Sowunmi, who was spokesman to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, argued that “the country is paying the price for the absence of a deliberate succession plan and youth inclusion” in governance.
 
Speaking yesterday in Abuja at the inauguration of the chairmen of the National Youth Alliance (NYA) from the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), he recalled that Nigeria had experienced the tragedy of a sitting President dying in office, followed by another who spent a significant part of his tenure in and out of hospitals. 

The former PDP governorship candidate in Ogun State said the development exposed the dangers of recycling ageing politicians in a country with an overwhelmingly youthful population.

Sowunmi argued that while experience is important, leadership also requires physical agility and mental alertness.   He urged youths to reject ethnic and religious bigotry, insisting that poverty and privilege affect Nigerians across ethnic lines in the same way.
 
Also, former Minister of State for FCT, Dr Ramatu Aliyu, urged young Nigerians to build trust, integrity and competence, stressing that national transformation begins from the community level.
 
Aliyu said Nigeria has often failed to produce its best leaders, not because of the lack of capable individuals, but because weak systems and poor leadership culture continue to reward mediocrity over merit.

DURING a press briefing in Lagos to herald the 2026 Annual General Conference (AGC) of the Cherubim & Seraphim Unification Church of Nigeria, Alogbo said as a church whose members are among the citizens of Nigeria, it is deeply troubled by the loss of innocent lives, displacement of families, and the atmosphere of fear across many communities in the country due to insecurity.

The AGC, to be hosted by The Saviour’s Ministries of C&S, will be held from January 29 to February 1, 2026, with the theme, ‘An Unhidden City’.
 
“As we speak, 156 members of our church are still in the den of their abductors, having been abducted during Sunday service on January 18, 2026, at Wali, in Kajuru local councils of Kaduna State. While the church commends the Tinubu-led Federal Government for its efforts at frontally addressing the security challenges in the land, the church, however, expressed worries over the recent increase in kidnappings across the country, to which it demands the government to look critically into,” he said.