{"id":60082,"date":"2022-10-04T10:36:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T10:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=60082"},"modified":"2022-10-04T10:36:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T10:36:06","slug":"my-pr%f0%9f%99%8f%f0%9f%8f%bfyer-for-our-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=60082","title":{"rendered":"My prayer for our democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*MY PR??YER FOR OUR DEMOCRACY<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Sam Kputu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Lord our God, we need your help in Nigeria *for our democracy to thrive and our politics to be more SERVICE and DEVELOPMENT oriented.*<\/p>\n<p>Help us to move *our political discourse to shift* from PARTIES and PERSONALITIES to PROCESSES, PROGRAMS and PROJECTS<\/p>\n<p>Please give us *REPRESENTATIVES and LEGISLATURES that truly represent the people&#8217;s interests* and provide robust, informed and quality oversights so *our EXECUTIVES do not become medevial KINGS and DESPOTS.*<\/p>\n<p>_And Lord, just before you get tired of me, please *grant our ELECTORATES to be more and well ENLIGHTENED, INFORMED*, to see beyond (social) MEDIA HYPES and BULLIES to elect leaders they truly believe in; leaders with INITIATIVE COMPETENCE and DELIVERY CAPACITY. Leaders that inspire HOPE, TRUST and CONFIDENCE.<\/p>\n<p>_Finally Lord, at least for this time, *help us CITIZENS to see elections beyond POLLING and RESULTS*. Give us the WISDOM, COURAGE and DILIGENCE *to hold and demand whoever we elect ACCOUNTABLE.*<\/p>\n<p>And *to JUDGE AND HOLD OURSELVES BY THE SAME VALUES AND STANDARDS WE HOLD OUR LEADERS,* so we won&#8217;t be HYPOCRITES._<\/p>\n<p>*I pray this in Jesus Name.*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*MY PR??YER FOR OUR DEMOCRACY By Sam Kputu O&#8217;Lord our God, we need your help in Nigeria *for our democracy to thrive and our politics to be more SERVICE and DEVELOPMENT oriented.* Help us to move *our political discourse to shift* from PARTIES and PERSONALITIES to PROCESSES, PROGRAMS and PROJECTS Please give us *REPRESENTATIVES and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":56922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[635,1079,249],"class_list":["post-60082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith","tag-635","tag-democracy","tag-nigeria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}