Primate Ayodele calls out at big pastors like Oyedepo and Adeboye for not speaking up

INRI Spiritual and Evangelical Church leader Primate Elijah Ayodele has attacked leading pentecostal pastors in the country including the likes of David Oyedepo and Enoch Adeboye over their silence about the recent killing of Christians in Nigeria.

 

Over recent weeks, there has been a spate of religious-inspired murders in the country with a female evangelist killed in Abuja and a 74-year old Christian murdered in Kano. Primate Ayodele, who has condemned the murders, has taken a swipe at those he called Big Pastors for keeping quiet in the face of unabated attacks against the church.

 

Primate Ayodele said “They slit the throat of a woman preaching in Abuja, they beheaded a 74-year-old woman in Kano, they nearly killed another poor carpenter for not observing fasting, they attacked a church in Niger State for holding a service on Friday and so on. Nigeria is getting to the edge, no more tolerance and we are moving on as if all is well”

 

“Last week, the Appeal Court ruled that hijab can be worn to schools and the Sultan of Sokoto came out and told Muslims that if anybody does not want you to practise Islam, you can fight.  The fact that nobody has come out to say the Sultan did not say that means he was quoted correctly and yet, I have not heard reactions from those who ought to have spoken.

 

"I am not scared of anybody, I will call names. People like Adeboye, Oyedepo and Folorunsho Kumuyi and other Big Pastors that people believe so much are holier than thou have kept quiet."

 

According to Primate Ayodele, only one man has been shouting and that is Apostle Suleman, who has been the lone voice fighting against the government’s pronouncements. Other issues he said should be cause for concern are the edict in Kaduna State that churches must apply for licences and the law in Osun state allowing Muslim girls to wear the hijab to school.

 

“Nobody is ready to bell the cat, maybe they are thinking that they will lose rich members or their connections in power. Even though I am still watching him, the new Christian Association of Nigeria president must take steps to put the plight of Christians at the fore front," he added.