Pentecostal
Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, rose from its 12th biennial conference on
Friday night in the Akwa Ibom State capital, Uyo, with a resolution to
tackle corruption in the nation through deliberate isolation of corrupt
members.
The position of the charismatic preachers, most of whom loudly voiced their anger against the high rate of corruption and fake pastors
in the land, was articulated by the outgoing National President, Pastor
Ayo Oritsejafor, who charged Pentecostal ministers to scrutinise the
source of their members wealth. He spoke at the grand finale of the
12th biennial conference of the Fellowship.
Turning to the mammoth crowd of Pentecostal ministers and the
congregation that overtook the Uyo Township Stadium, Oritsejafor said:
“We must be ready to give an account
for ourselves and therefore we will no longer tolerate criminals in the
Church of God. Men of God, you must be ready to question the source of
members wealth.”
He expressed disgust on the level of corruption in the country, saying it was totally disheartening when he read the report of a man who stole about N23 billion Police Pension Fund saying ‘he only stole N23 billion.’
Oritsejafor, who drew attention to the story of Daniel who refused
to defile himself with the king’s delicacies, charged doctors, lawyers,
teachers, politicians and all professionals to carry their mandate
without any form of compromise, arguing “there is nothing on the king’s
table that is worth your God-given mandate.”
According to him, right from the Presidency to the least person in
the local government level “we must be ready to declare that we will not
compromise our salvation or the mandate God had given to us.”
Oritsejafor declared that the current persecution of the Church in Nigeria did not begin with Boko Haram.
According to him, there has been a deliberate act to silence the
Church in the North long before the emergence of Boko Haram, stating
that it is common knowledge that despite the pretence to one brotherhood
in the country, no church in that region has been given a certificate
of occupancy in the last 30 years.
“I stand to be corrected, there is no university campus in the North
where Christian students are allowed to worship their God without
harassment,” he stated, calling on all delegates from that part of the
country not to run away.
“They are doing everything to squeeze you out your God-given land in
the North, but I urge you to stay. Don’t run away, the Church in the
South will stand by you. Don’t compromise because of persecution. God
will stand by you,” he said, adding that as God rose on behalf of
Daniel, Joseph and many others in the Bible, so God will stand by the
Christians in the North.
Oritsejafor further encouraged them to be steadfast, saying “no gates
of Hell, neither conspiracy from the pit of hell can stop the Church in
this country. if they cannot stop the Church, they cannot stop you.”
Earlier, the new PFN president, Rev. Felix Omobude, who described
Oritsejafor as the voice of the Lord in this hour, also charged
Christians not to be weary of current happenings in the country, saying
that God will fight for His people.
Speaking on; “In the volume of book”, Omobude said evil people will
rage against the Church and God people but in spite of all these labour
and persecution, God will open a new page for the Church.
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