Members of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Nigeria will not be participating in the 2011 general elections, the President of the church, Pastor Joseph Adebisi Ola, has said.

He said this during a news conference at the church headquarters, Maryland Lagos, on Friday, stating that no member of the Adventist Church would vote for any political party or candidate in the 2011 polls.

According to him, the church had resolved to boycott the elections because the timetable released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) coincides with the church worship hours on Saturdays.

He said, “because we find ourselves in this kind of situation when INEC has refused to consider our church programmes, we have resolved to boycott the elections. It is like trampling upon the right of every member of the church to worship his God. God’s directive is that we should worship him on the Sabbath day, which is Saturday from morning till evening.”

He explained that it became necessary for the church to boycott the poll now because INEC had snubbed its plea to consider about 17 million people that worship every Saturday at the Adventist Church.

He posited that any member of the church who might be contesting for any electoral position had been advised to stay away from the polling booths during the election.

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