National President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Bishop Wale Oke, has come out to speak on the several challenges bedevilling the country. He recently shared that after the 2025 National Executive Retreat in Uyo, the conclusion was that Nigerians must not stop praying for the country.
Speaking during an interview, Bishop Wale Oke disclosed that Nigerians must increase their prayer and fasting for this country because what Nigeria is battling currently is beyond what ordinary human beings can handle.
According to him, divine intervention is the only answer to Nigeria’s troubles, and if we stop involving God in our problems, things will only get worse and out of hand.
He urged more citizens to get involved in politics from the grassroots, stressing that Christians being a part of political structures can help them influence governance from inside, as opposed to them complaining from outside.
“One of our resolutions is that we must not stop praying for Nigeria. We must push up prayer and fasting for this country because God answers prayers and we have seen that the problem Nigeria is grappling with is beyond what human beings can handle ordinarily. We need divine intervention hence we must all push prayer up. All our participants came from every state so we are sending ourselves back with that resolution to pray more for Nigeria. The second resolution is that our people must get involved in politics from the grassroots but not people like me because I cannot get involved in partisan politics.
As it is, everybody in all the political parties are my children so I cannot be biased but we tell our members to get involved and actively participate in politics beyond getting a voter card they should be involved from ward level and be the ones that will be voted for. This is the reason we created the Directorate of Politics and Good Governance in PFN to enlighten our members and let them know the need to actively participate in politics from the grassroot. Pastor Femi Emmanuel, a truly detribalized Nigerian who hails from Edo but lives in Oyo State and won elective political position in the state, is in charge of the department. He was an insider in what goes on in the political world before God called him.
He is educating Christians not only to pray but to actively participate in politics from the grassroots because we have been edged out for too long and it is time to get involved. Pastor Emmanuel and his team have set structures from the national to zones, states and all the 774 local government areas and CDAs. Now they are going to wards educating Christians on how to get involved peacefully in politics and political structures to influence the governance from inside and not from outside. Another resolution we took is to be the change that we want to see. If we are preaching against corruption, nepotism and tribalism, we ourselves must not be tribalistic. We must love every Nigerian equally for us to see the change we desire. We also told our people to go into the nation not only to do this but to educate their followers to do the same because we are the salt and light to the world and we know that just as darkness bows before the light, evil will bow before us and Nigeria will prevail over the present circumstances that we find ourselves,” he said.
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Bishop Wale Oke further noted that the level of insecurity in Nigeria is completely unacceptable, alleging that there must be insiders who are colluding with troublesome Fulani herdsmen to carry out their atrocities.
He concluded by calling on President Tinubu to rise up and deal with the insecurity decisively because there can be no progress and prosperity when the country is not safe.
“The level of insecurity in this country is totally unacceptable. Some people have said it is communal clashes but that is not true. It is an invasion by Fulani Herdsmen who want to drive indigenous owners of land out of their lands and forcefully take over their patrimony. This is what is happening in Benue, Taraba, Plateau and various parts of the country and federal government should know the truth about this and do something decisively about it. These rag-tagged army of these Fulani herdsmen carrying guns cannot withstand the highly organised army, it means something is wrong somewhere. There are inside agents that are colluding, conniving with the Boko Haram, ISWAP, Fulani Herdsmen. Therefore, the federal government should change the architecture and structure of our national security.
The President should take another look at the security reports that are being presented to him because in most cases they are false narratives that make victims the culprit and culprit to become the victim. It is like standing the pyramids on its head, and that’s why we advise that people that have sympathy for these terrorists should be removed. The government should please rise up and deal with this matter decisively because there can be no progress and prosperity when insecurity is on the rise, like it is in Nigeria. For example, now food security is under threat when farmers cannot go to their farms because of fear of herdsmen except they pay tax to be able to plant and harvest their crops. This is not acceptable. These criminals invade villages, kill, burn houses, drive the owners out and change the names of the villages to their names, that is like there is no government in place and that’s Banana Republic,” he added.
