The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, says he stopped attending a branch of a church in Abuja because the pastor was always att*cking president Muhammadu Buhari.
Speaking in an article on Thursday, November 4, Adesina said, “I used to attend a church in Abuja from 2015 to 2018, till the pastor began to see himself as someone who must bring the Buhari government down. Sunday after Sunday, it was all sorts of criticism from the pulpit. But I endured, since it was a branch of a church I had attended for over 30 years. Till one day, he overdid it.
The Dapchi girls were abducted and there was no name the pastor did not call President Buhari that Sunday. It was horrendous that such things could come from the pulpit. But I suffered long and sat through the sermon, or rather, what was supposed to be a sermon. I then went home, wondering what the church of God was turning to.”
The President’s aid said after most of the Dapchi girls had been rescued, the pastor did not deem it fit to commend the President in subsequent service.
“Irrespective of the titles they bear, I hear bishops, apostles, prophets, pastors, evangelists, c*rsing the government, and issuing d*omsday notices.
Without sitting in judgment over anybody, I just believe that majority of our preachers need to be born again again. If what we hear them preach and teach is anything to go by, they need to be born again again. Otherwise, Heaven seems to be very far away,” he added.
