Not crowd but decision to vote wisely
By Jerome-Mario Utomi AS Nigeria braces for the February 25 and March 11 general elections, I am reminded of an event that happened back in the day. The referenced event was recorded one Sunday morning during the celebration of the Holy Mass in one of the Catholic Church parishes in a town in Delta State. One of the major high points of the mass is called the prayer of the faithful. This is a time when carefully and well-rehearsed lay faithful, usually about five in number, are invited before the altar to pray for different intentions on behalf of the entire people attending worship. On this particular day, a man, whom we later discovered to be a non-Catholic, emerged from the rest of us. He was neither selected nor part of those that rehearsed for the function, but without recourse, he made his way to the altar with a supersonic speed and assumed the first position. Though strange, the church warden was left with no other option than to allow him in order not to create a scene an...