National Vice President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Prophet Isa El-Buba
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMGANI, Bauchi –
The National Vice President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Prophet Isa El-Buba, has said that it will be exercise in futility for any political party to present a Muslim/Muslim presidential ticket to Nigerians in the 2023 general election.
He said the move is dead on arrival and cannot work in Nigeria at a critical time like this.
El-Buba who is also the President of the Evangelical Bible Outreach Ministries International with headquarters in Jos, Plateau State, stated this in an interview with journalists, on the sidelines of the burial of the Pioneer Chairman of PFN, Bauchi State Chapter, Rev. Nathaniel Odekunle at the weekend.
He said that all the political parties must strike a balance in their choice of candidates to stand for election in the interest of equity and justice.
Asked to comment on perceived plans by the ruling All Progressives Congress to field Muslim/Muslim presidential candidates, he said, “it is dead on arrival. that’s not going to work in Nigeria and it’s not going to succeed in Nigeria.”
He added that: “Nigerians will prove to every other person that justice and fairness are what are required and what anybody does, the north has ruled, the south has also ruled but then, there must also be a balance a Muslim ticket that has ruled the nation and now it has to be a Christian ticket. And that’s just equity and justice. So, we will see how it all works out.”
According to him, the recent bombing of the St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, shows that the Nigerian Church is under serious persecution.
He however said that the persecutions being faced by Christians across the country has not deterred them but has only emboldened them.
“Basically, we’ve seen that (that the Church in Nigeria is being persecuted). With the bombing that took place in Owo, that tells you how much the Church is being persecuted. But the Church is not deterred, the Church is stronger and the Church is getting more strong and that is getting us more emboldened to face the situation,” he declared.
El-Buba said that the insecurity bedeviling the country can best be addressed when justice is done to all Nigerians, noting that: “If justice plays out as it should play out, these things will come to an end, but when you try to give some people a cover and then deprive a community of justice, that’s what you find.”
Prophesying, he said, “but we are going to see justice, because lie is for a moment while truth is for ever a d we will see how God is going to release his own judgement by raising the right people that will execute the judgement that is required that will stop this insurgency in our country.”
Asked if he was to be Nigeria’s President, how would he solve the insecurity in the land, he said, “justice and justice speaks follow.”
Meanwhile, the Senior Pastor of the Evangel Chapel, Gombe, Rev Abraham Akanmu, has charged Pastors across the country to prepare the Church to be radical spiritually in order to defend themselves especially with the current challenges facing the country.
He stated this in a sermon at the funeral service of the late PFN Chairman which held at the Overcomers’ Chapel, Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi.
Akanmu who said that although Christians should protect themselves when attacked, however, they must be fully prepared spiritually in the face of persecution stressing that prayer is still the only solution to the challenges confronting the country.
He said: “Men of God, we have to prepare the Church, teach them how to exercise authority. This is the time to prepare Christians to take authority, to take command like Joshua especially those of us in the north, let them be radical in the place of prayer.
“The Bible says some trust in horses, some trust in chariots, but we trust in the name of the Lord. Quote scriptures fire for fire, scriptural power is more powerful than just complaining that God has left you. All this message of ‘fight back’, I don’t like it, let them (Pastors) teach us the scriptures. I am not saying you shouldn’t defend yourself.
“Let’s teach them the power, the potency of the name of Jesus, the name that is above every other name. Let them exercise authority little by little so that when the days of evil come, they will stand.
“Let’s stop these aggressive approach to the things happening around us. Prayer is not too much. The solution is still prayer, number one, number two, three, four, five….ten, prayer.
NATIONAL ACCORD had reported that Odekunle who was, until his death, the Chairman of the PFN State Advisory Council, died after a brief illness on May 9th, 2022, barely two weeks after celebrating his 75th birthday.
He retired in 2012 as a lecturer with the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi, and was also a one-time an Adviser to both the PFN and the Christian Association of Nigeria in the state.
