{"id":920337,"date":"2022-01-28T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/28\/stop-seeing-politics-as-dirty-diri-urges-christians\/"},"modified":"2022-01-28T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T15:06:00","slug":"stop-seeing-politics-as-dirty-diri-urges-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/28\/stop-seeing-politics-as-dirty-diri-urges-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Seeing Politics As Dirty, Diri Urges Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_797758\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-797758\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-797758 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/hOMxVbdL.jpeg-600x340.png\" alt=\"Stop Seeing Politics As Dirty, Diri Urges Christians\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-797758\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Douye Diri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If Christians want to have a constructive impact on society, Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri has recommended they actively participate in politics and stop considering it as dirty.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Diri provided the advice at the conclusion of a two-day event organized by the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Yenagoa dubbed \u201cLight Up Bayelsa Holy Ghost Rally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He exhorted Christians not to stay out of politics or to be apathetic about it, but to join in order to influence decision-making for the greater good of the people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0Nigerians Play Dirty Politics, Can Do Anything To Get Elected \u2013Abdulsalami<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria, according to Diri, is in desperate need of people who can help it overcome its many issues, and the church should not be complacent in the face of insecurity, corruption, and other vices that endanger the country.<\/p>\n<p>The governor stated that under his administration, peace had come to stay in the state and that the days when people resort to violence to settle differences are over.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douye Diri If Christians want to have a constructive impact on society, Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri has recommended they actively participate in politics and stop considering it as dirty. On Thursday, Diri provided the advice at the conclusion of a two-day event organized by the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Yenagoa dubbed \u201cLight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}