…Says If Nigeria Is Attacked, China, Russia, EU Won’t Help Us
Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, has asked the Federal Government to tell the U.S. President, Donald Trump, to give the country 100 days of grace to address insecurity.
Adeboye, who also advised President Bola Tinubu to give the service chiefs 90 days to tackle the menace or risk being sacked, spoke exclusively to his congregation early on Saturday morning during the monthly Holy Ghost service at Redemption City, Ogun State.
G.O as he is popularly called, noted that what is going on is not a joke and shouldn’t be trivialised, warning that should America attack Nigeria, China, Russia or even the European Union (EU) won’t save us.
The General Overseer, also alluded to the fact that he advised late President Muhammadu Buhari to order service chiefs to stop insecurity or get sacked, but regretted that Buhari didn’t follow up with the sanction.
He also noted that he has privately spoken to all former presidents on the issue, stressing that he has done his best. However, he refused to speak on Trump’s threat until the president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) spoke on the matter, but added that he had done so privately.
He said, “In my own usual quiet way, I’ve related to all the presidents who were around when this trouble started. Whatever I discussed is between me and them. I’ve done my best, quietly, behind the scenes. But as I’ve always told you, you can only advise the commander-in-chief. You can’t command him. Because if you command the commander-in-chief, then you become the commander of the commander-in-chief. That doesn’t make sense. What should we do? I’m talking to you as my children. If I were asked to make suggestions, I would say, move fast, move diplomatically, and move wisely. Find a way to convince the President of America to please delay his actions for about 100 days. And then, come home, tell our security chiefs, get rid of these terrorists within 90 days or resign. I’m sure this sounds familiar to those of you who have been following the situation in Nigeria.”
Alluding to Buhari, he said, “There was a president, fortunately, he’s dead now. He issued such an order. He called the service chiefs together and said, “I give you three months. Get rid of all this or resign.” He’s not around to tell you who gave him that advice. He ran with that advice. But, he didn’t follow through. Because he gave the order as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. But, the security operatives moved fast. The three months went by and the work wasn’t done.
“So I went to see him. It was in the news. This time, somehow, the press discovered that I had visited him. But they weren’t there when we talked. Unfortunately, as I said, he’s no longer alive. I would’ve asked you to go and ask him. Sir, why didn’t you follow through? When three months had passed and the work was still not done. “Why didn’t you proceed with your sanction?” I won’t tell you the details. However, one thing came out of that meeting that will lead me to my next piece of advice for our government. That is, when giving orders to the service chief this time round, we should make it clear to them. That they’re not only able to eliminate the terrorists. They should eliminate their sponsors, no matter how influential they may be.”
He added, “When I say our leaders should move fast, move diplomatically, and wisely, we must take note of the facts. If America were to attack us, China wouldn’t come to defend us. Russia won’t come to defend us. All the so-called world leaders’ll talk, they’ll condemn what America has done in the strongest of times, that’s all they’ll do. Britain is not going to come and help us. No foreign powers will come to our aid. This isn’t the time for joking. This isn’t the time for drama. This isn’t the time for, I don’t know, a simple word for semantics. This isn’t the time when we’ll begin to argue. Is it genocide? This isn’t the time for saying, Ah, it’s Christians. Muslims are also involved. The point is, people are dying. Innocent people are dying.”
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