President Muhammadu Buhari
The General Overseer of Rhema Christian Church, Bishop Taiwo Akinola, has rejected plans by the federal government to Islamise Nigeria.
Speaking to newsmen after a conference organised by the Christ Global Network (CGN), he stressed that fresh people with fresh ideas and innovations should be encouraged to participate in politics.
Akinola said: “Younger people must be encouraged to get involved in governance to inject new thoughts, new ideas, new sensibility into our polity. We have been having recycled beings all these while.”
Speaking on the killings in different states especially in the Middle Belt, the cleric said: “I don’t like using that word. It has been bastardised.
“This is my conviction, Jesus said I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. So my position on that is that even if it’s, at the last minute, heaven will sound and rescue its people because Jesus said the gates of hell SHALL NOT.
“So no matter the pessimism anybody can nurse, the devil cannot win. So nobody can islamise this country. There can only be a better tomorrow for Nigeria. That’s part of the game plan of our shouting and involvement, it’s to sensitize everybody that nobody can Islamize Nigeria.”