Call A Meeting Of All The Stakeholders In That State With Respect To Religious Activities Before Rushing To The State Assembly For Any Bill..........Oritsejafor Tells el-Rufai

MAJORITY OF NIGERIAN PASTORS ARE FAKE............. AYO ORITSEJAFOR

Out-going President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN and, Founder of the Word of Bible Church, Ayo Oritsejafor is reputably a strong advocate of the Christendom has said that the church is losing its value due to the materialistic tendencies of the church leaders.

Senior Pastor Oritsejafor made this known recently while condemning the activities of some Nigerian Pastors who he said are after commercial success and allowing unclean money go into the church coffers, hence describing such Pastors as fake.

According to the outgoing CAN leader,”the problem we have in the church is that a lot of these pastors are not men of God as they were not called”.

In an interview granted to the Punch, Pastor Oritsejafor noted that; “they are mercenaries, commercially minded people. The duty of the church is to preach morality not materialism and because Nigerians are very gullible; they are easy victims of deceit. They fall prey to some of these pastors or prophets of doom. The way they live gives a wrong impression of what should be in a church of God. There should be no room for material possessions.

“I am not saying a man of God should not live a life of comfort but it should be a life of good comfort; that is why kidnapping is now a common thing even in the church.

“It is unfortunate that we are having this kind of problem because most places of religious gathering, particularly of the Christian faith, are seemingly reducing their faith to commercials. So many people think they have money and most of them live a flamboyant lifestyle.

“As such, the kidnappers mistake them for money men but there is nothing there. The kidnappers would be kept at bay if they stopped preaching prosperity and allowing dirty money to go into the church coffers. I also think the church is losing its moral values. The values are disappearing gradually.”

The very flamboyant Warri-based Pastor also spoke about the Kaduna state bill against preaching and encouraged the governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai to call for an extensive deliberation on the bill.

“He should call a meeting of all the stakeholders in that state with respect to religious activities before rushing to the state Assembly for any bill. Be that as it may, we have to be very careful if there is any bill intended to wear religious coloration”.

“When Shari’a was introduced into this country, we were lucky to have a Christian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, who tamed it. Nigeria would have been engulfed by the conflagration. Shari’a would have been misunderstood”.

“There are already enough laws in the statue book that takes care of what Governor El-Rufai has in mind. I have no objection if he wants to curb noise pollution in the name of religion. I quite agree if this is the basis. 

But in a situation where it is meant to tackle extremism, libel, sedition, incitement and more, there are enough laws in our statute book for this. Doing otherwise is not good for him”.

 
“I have tremendous respect for him for he was the person bold enough to say that there should be no more street begging. Yes, that was a sensible thing because even in the Islamic countries such is not allowed,” he stated.