Pastor Enoch Adeboye, Senior Pastor and General Overseer
of the Redeemed Christian Church of God has predicted that the current
security challenges would not consume Nigeria and that it would soon be a
thing of the past.
The General Overseer of the RCCG stated this at the
thanksgiving service to mark the end of 2012 Northern Ministers and
Workers Conference held at Redemption Camp Kassa, Plateau State where he
charged those opposed to peace to refrain from their wicked acts.
Pastor Adeboye whose sermon was taken from the Book of 1
Kings 18:30-39 with the title “Let the Fire Fall” warned that when the
fire falls, the enemies of God would go through unpleasant situations
just as all the prophets of Baal were killed in one day, adding that
God’s fire would consume all those opposed to peace in Plateau and
Nigeria if they refused to repent.
The cleric, who prayed for the peace of Plateau and the
country at large, said that the state was special to God for His
missions in the country and admonished the people of Plateau to remain
steadfast in the Lord, adding that peace, would reign supreme in the
state.
The Governor of Plateau State, Jonah Jang said that the
age long contest that has been going on in the state which has been
targeted for confrontations of the highest order has finally been
settled in favour of the state by the visit of Pastor Adeboye.
Jang who was represented by the Plateau State Permanent
Secretary Security, Barrister Istifanus Gyang said “Plateau, a very
pleasant land chosen by God is no longer helpless as God has packaged
help and divine intervention by the apostolic visit of God’s servant, to
the state.
In a related development, Catholic Bishop of Sokoto State,
Most Rev Matthew Hassan kukah and the Governor of the Central Bank of
Nigeria, CBN Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi have called on Nigerian leaders
to retrace their steps and repent in view of the current Security
challenges in the country.
They both stated this yesterday in Jos the Plateau State
capital while speaking at the thanksgiving service of late Ngo Elizabeth
Pam, mother of Dr Ishaya Pam, Chief Medical Director, Jos University
Teaching Hospital (JUTH), at St Luke’s Catholic Church.
Sanusi said: “the current crop of leadership in Nigeria -
and I mean all of us who are in position of leadership – need to ask
ourselves where we have failed and take practical steps to redress it so
as to build a strong and virile country.
He said that past leaders concentrated on building a
united nation with a common goal – a peaceful, and united Nigeria
irrespective of their political, ethnic and religious differences.
Stressing further, he stated: “I attended a Catholic School and was a
choir boy in King’s College. So for me, we are one people whether
Muslim, Christian, we worship the same God. Jesus Christ is one of the
greatest Prophets in Islam, we (Muslims) honour Him and adore him,” he
said.
Also speaking, Bishop Kukah said that the current state of
the nation was not what the nation’s past heroes had envisaged when
they were in government .``They (past leaders) are already gone but
there is still so many lessons for us to learn because this is not the
kind of country that people like Elizabeth Pam had dreamt about.
‘We (leaders) have to reposition ourselves, remind
ourselves about the values of the leadership and their legacy, their
sacrifice as we hope that tomorrow can be better.”
Both Bishop Kukah and then CBN Governor paid glowing
tributes to the late Ngo Elizabeth Pam. She was a philanthropist, a
member of the Oputa Panel and co-Chairman of the Plateau Peace
Conference.
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