A revered cleric in charge of the God of Fire Global Evangelical
Ministries (GOFGEM), Evangelist Peter Kolajo on Sunday said a challenged Nation
like Nigeria needs spiritual restructuring to survive as a country.
The cleric argued that for Nigeria and Nigerians to maintain
their status in the comity of Nations and among the black race, people must begin to champion the course of God rather than pursuing ephemeral tendencies.
Evangelist Kolajo made the statement in his homily during the
Sunday Service at the Headquarters of the Ministry in Osogbo, Osun state
capital.
While not indifferent on the agitation for "Nigeria's
restructuring", the clergyman asserted that Nigeria's woes were beyond
fiscal restructuring but rather spiritual one.
He said, “Nigeria's economy and national life of the
citizenry have gotten to a stage where Nigerians must rise and seek God's face
for spiritual deliverance through fervent prayers”.
The spiritual man of God opined that the challenges confronting
Nigeria at the moment were beyond the agitation for true federalism,
restructuring and fiscal devolution of powers but rather a collective army of
heaven's intervention.
According to the Cleric, God’s basic idea revealed to our
pre-independence fighters was to agree upon and birth a country with blessed
resources to develop its people and improve the well-being of all.
"But alas, despite possessing immense natural resources,
being the most populous black nation, all institutions of governance have
failed and betrayed their faith in God and humanity, hence leading to a state
of national dissatisfaction.
“The level of inefficiency and impotency of all arms of government
has led a nation (Nigeria) into the abyss of impoverishment, deplorable
infrastructure, decline potentiality, mass unemployment rate, insecurity
challenges, religious and inter- ethnic hostility and disunity. Hence Nigeria
claims to be independent but yet unable to show forth the glory of independence
as insatiable selfish thirst for power by those at the helms of affairs over
the years”.
"It is regrettable that quantum numbers of public
office holders have turned malfeasance conduct, abuse of office and misconduct
to norms and custom in managing public treasury, thus requiring urgent
spiritual intervention. It is not an exaggeration that the fear of God is
missing in their individual lives, our national existence and corporate living
as a nation, thus if this situation is not attended to through tireless
dedication to the will of God in prayers and submission to Him alone may lead
us to path of uncertainty," the cleric stressed.
Throwing his weights behind the call for Nigeria's
restructuring, Evangelist Kolajo announced that restructuring remains the only
sustainable foundation Nigerian leaders could chose at the moment to set the
nation to the glorious path of economic sustainability and prosperity.
He added, "“Resource control, local government autonomy,
adjustment of power, economic diversification, power shifting and zoning,
creation of more states, fiscal federalism etc. are great steps but currently
in the wrong direction for starting up restructuring. But to kick-start, all
our negative habits needed to be abandoned, changed and consciously worked upon
for positivity. It is time for us as a united entity to embrace the greater
light that we have all denied, betrayed and abandoned which is God Himself.
"We need to humble ourselves before God via praying and
seeking His face for the original restructuring blueprint we have destroyed.
No comments:
Post a Comment