The Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ifeanyi Okowa has accused Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate, of trying to get votes by stirring up sentiments through the church.

Obi visited many churches, where he was warmly welcomed.

Okowa, the governor of Delta state, said that the church shouldn't be politicized in an interview with DailyTrust Kano.

Okowa responded to a question about the claim that his election as the vice presidential candidate of the PDP was a betrayal of the south, particularly with Obi's growing popularity in the area. He said that it was unfortunate that people hold on to everything even at the cost of their fate.

“Now you begin to look at what is going on; the Peter Obi factor is as if he is trying to go through the church and make it look as if he is driving the Christians into politics. I do not believe that the church should actively go into politics because that is not their calling.

But people are just hanging to anything they can reach out to even to the detriment of their fate. I don’t believe that’s the right part to go” he said