Pastor Enoch Adeboye
By Mark Mayah
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has waded into the plan by Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Presidents under the Chairmanship of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to battle the military junta that on July 26, 2023 ousted civilian governance in neighbouring Niger Republic.
Adeboye said as Nigeria was currently fighting serious wars, the country needed bit embark on fresh ones.
“We are still fighting wars against hunger, we are fighting some serious wars and sure we don’t want more wars. We want to win the ones we are fighting and we don’t want fresh ones; whether within or without our borders,” the respected cleric said on Saturday.
Adeboye gave the counsel during the church’s 2023 Convention with the theme, ‘Beyond Expectations’.
According to the clergyman, this country had already fought a Civil War that lasted from July 1967 to January 1970.
Adeboye said, “Nigeria still needs a lot of prayers. I’m a small boy but I was at the battlefront during the Civil War; not as a soldier but I lived near the battlefront and what I saw, if anybody ask me to choose between war and peace, I will choose peace.”
Pointing out that Nigeria was already battling kidnappers, terrorists, killer herdsmen, it did not need more wars but to win the ones it is battling currently.
He said: “And we are already fighting many wars in Nigeria, we are fighting wars against kidnappers, we are fighting wars against terrorists. There are still places in Nigeria today that when people go to bed, they are not sure they would not be killed before tomorrow morning.
“We are still fighting wars against some people who feel that if you are a farmer and you plant, then what you have planted is food for their cows and if their cows come to eat your harvest and you complain, they kill you.”
On July 26, 2023, the military in neighbouring Niger Republic snatched power from the constitutionally elected government of President Mohamed Bazoum.
