‘Nigeria Won’t Break Now’

Apostle Abraham Kehinde Ojutalayo, the General Overseer of New World Evangelical Church, a.k.a. Christ Success Church, Ikorodu, Lagos, has declared that Nigeria as a country cannot break up now despite all the predictions and prophecies concerning her imminent disintegration.

He said this in an interview with our correspondent when he unfolded plans for the church’s 7th Anniversary coming up in the last week of November in Lagos.

According to him, “Nigeria cannot break now. That is not the plan of God. I can tell you that the plan of God for this country is to make it big to the extent that this nation will be great, boom and become another Mecca of sort where all the countries of the world would come and witness the manifestation of his majesty; even white men will be scrambling to get visas to come to Nigeria.”

Ojutalayo, however, advised that to quickly realise that plan of God, all Nigerians should go on their knees to fast and pray even if it is for only one day.

He supported his position with the Biblical passage in Exodus 20. He maintained that the outcome of the prayer and fasting would no doubt marvel the whole nation, including those already predicting the disintegration of the country.

Asked whether the planned removal of fuel subsidy by President Goodluck Jonathan is in order, the cleric advised the President to jettison the planned removal of subsidy on petroleum products, saying he should instead, concentrate on how to solve the energy problem facing the country especially because of the state of our economy and the volatile political atmosphere we have today. The cleric said the president should go back to God and retrace the vision God gave him and find the meaning of that name ‘Jonathan’.

He maintained that the mandate God gave him was to cater for the masses but, which according to him, the president had not kept, adding that if the oil subsidy should be removed, the president should expect crisis.

He advised government to avoid issues that would affect Nigerians negatively.

The man of God also advised that the subsidy removal itself would create room for corruption, if it is not well managed. He said hardly would one see a family not having two or three unemployed youths. He said the President to address the unemployment.

According to him,“The President should do what needs to be done and forget about removing any subsidy because there is a lot of work for him to do rather than the removal of oil subsidy. Any problem that the nation fails to address will haunt the nation.

— Jamiu Yisa