A popular Nigerian social media critic, Tuesday, took side with Bishop David Oyedepo, the founder of Living Faith Church also known as Winners Chapel Worldwide, for asking President Muhammadu Buhari to resign over the rampant killings of innocent people in the country.
Oyedepo had, Sunday, in a YouTube video posted by the church’s official page at its headquarters in Ota, Ogun State, asked President Muhammadu Buhari to resign over persistent Fulani militant herdsmen killings.
Reno Omokri, a one-time to former President Goodluck Jonathan stated ‘’I dare Muhammadu Buhari to lay a hand on Bishop David Oyedepo for speaking the truth to him. He tries it and he meets his waterloo!’’
Omokri in his Twitter handle wrote ‘’Bishop Oyedepo is right in asking @MBuhari to resign and GO. This is a failed leadership that has brought little beside sorrow, tears and blood!’’
Oyedepo had joined John Cardinal Onaiyekan, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church, Abuja; and Archbishop Anthony Okogie, a former Archbishop of the Catholic Church in Lagos– who have asked Buhari to quit his position over failure to secure the lives of Nigerians.
The cleric told his congregation that although he was not partisan, he would not be alive and not talk about the massacre of Nigerians, especially in the Middle Belt, by suspected Fulani herdsmen.
Speaking on the theme, “Enough is enough,” he said, “When I was talking in 2015, people were saying my own was too much, now everybody can see what’s happening. What has moved forward in anybody’s life? You don’t know it’s war. Why are they attacking the Christian communities? Why has nobody been arrested? I can tell you this, the authorities and the powers that be are behind them.
“I will never be partisan; Jesus got me out of it in 1984. But I will not be alive to see innocent people massacred.
“We must wake up and push this evil back. Not one of those so-called herdsmen – they are jihadists – has been brought to book till date. Herdsmen don’t shoot; they have been here all along. They are just taking cover under the herdsmen to assault innocent citizens. They wake up in the night and slice innocent children to pieces. Yet, you have a government in place. What!
“The most honourable thing for any non-performing leader to do is to resign. The most honourable thing is to resign. That’s my own for Mr President. Resign! Get out of office! Even our Islamic friends in the North are calling on him (Buhari) to resign. Because that’s the noblest thing to do. Or are we going to look at one system destroy a whole nation?”
Oyedepo also warned Nigerians against the ceding of land to the Fulani herdsmen for ranching, as proposed by the Federal Government.
He said, “I’m going to say this and I’m not going to be tired. This (Nigeria) will never be a Fulani republic. That is not our terms of agreement. It will remain a secular nation till Jesus returns. It’s not just (about) land, it’s (about) heritage.
“Forever, I stand on the fact that no government has the authority to collect land from those who own it and transfer it to another person because on the other side (presumably the north), it never happens.”
