11th May, 2014
Transcript of a presentation delivered by Bosun Emmanuel at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Canaan Land Parish.
My name is Bosun Emmanuel. A little bit about myself and the ministry: I was ordained in the Redeemed Christian Church of God as an Assistant Pastor, as a full pastor and I was the National Coordinator of the RCCG in Germany for many years. The Lord sent us packing from Germany in 2006, and told me to go back home. Of course you wouldn’t want to return to Nigeria if you were living in Germany – you know what I mean. And when we asked, “What are we supposed to do in Nigeria? There is nothing.” He said “You have an assignment, go and meet the information needs of the Church. The Church in Nigeria lacks information.” And the Bible says my people perish for lack of knowledge.
Brethren, I am here to do only one thing – to give you information. What you are going to do with the information depends on you. But I pray you will use that information wisely. Because I have very heavy news for you, we are in serious trouble. Now let me quickly make certain points very clear:
- My presentation is not to strike panic in you. I’m going to show you some things that will make you afraid, but the intention is not to strike fear into you. I am not a rabble-rouser; I’m not here to whip up emotions or to whip up sentiments. Please let’s get that very clearly.
- I’m not here to instil fear in any Christian. I’m here to be an agent of revival, such that after you receive this information, there will be revival in the church and you will become an ambassador.
- I want to move the church to repentance. The Nigerian Church has gone the wrong way. We must repent.
- I want us to foster unity. We are divided. Jesus Christ said a house that is divided [against itself], it cannot stand. We need prayers for Nigeria; we need prayers for the Church.
And then, this is not a hate speech. I don’t hate Muslims and I don’t want you to hate Muslims, but I’m going to tell you a lot of things the Muslims are doing that may get you angry. Please, do not hate them – they are not your enemies. Both the Muslims and the Christians have only one enemy – his name is Lucifer. The reason we are in this crisis in Nigeria today is because the church primarily has forsaken its responsibility.
Finally, I want us to return to discipleship which we have abandoned 20 years ago. The Nigerian Church in the past 20 years has stopped raising disciples. We don’t have disciples anymore. The Nigerian Church has now focused on raising millionaires. And we forget that on the day of crisis, the millionaire will catch the next available flight and fly out of the country; only disciples would stand to defend the church.
We are at war. Look, if anybody tells you it is peace and safety, no! Don’t say that now, we are at war. There is a full scale war against the Church. And right now Nigeria is fighting a civil war. Nobody wants to say it, but there is a war going on. For the Church to survive, the church needs disciples. Now, let me show you elements of that war. I will show you some images. First Baptist Church in Potiskum has been burnt down. ECWA, Church of God Mission and several other churches have been set on fire by the foot soldiers of Islam. They are called Almajiris.
See how our brethren are being killed and cut to pieces. As I am talking to you, this is what is going on in Nigeria. I’m not talking about what is going on in Somalia; I’m not talking about what is going on in Sudan. This is what is going on in your country right now. This is how Christians are murdered in this nation; they are cut to pieces. The hatred is satanic and the reason we’re having this problem is because the Church forsook missions. We refused to go; we all sat down in Lagos, in Ibadan, in Port-Harcourt, nourishing our souls. We forgot those in the North. Because we failed to evangelise them, the harvest that was ripe 2000 years ago, the harvest is rotten. Boko Haram is the rotten harvest. If we had reached them before the terrorists reached them, they would be carrying the Bible, not AK 47.
See, God is not holding Boko Haram responsible for what is going on in Nigeria; He’s holding the Church responsible. Terrible cases that you’ll never believe are going on in your country. All these are Christians. I’m going to show you a movie footage – it is a footage of 501 Christians that were slaughtered in one night including children, in a village called Dogonaawa, in Jos. This took place in Nigeria. You can’t finish watching the footage; and it is still taking place as I’m talking now.
The reality is this: it is not localised to the North. What I just showed you is planned to take place all over Nigeria and Christianity in Nigeria is on its way out. We’ve come to that point that every Christian in Nigeria must consciously say, “I will not be the last Christian in this Nation” because if we don’t take time we are the last Christians. I will explain and God will give me grace. Nigeria is on the verge. God doesn’t want Nigeria to explode. God doesn’t want Nigeria to break to pieces, God doesn’t want destruction in Nigeria. God has an agent in Nigeria to prevent whatever evil we see that is going on. God has an agent to stop corruption, to stop oppression, to stop terrorism, to stop kidnapping. God has an agent whom He has empowered and assigned: “This is your job”. That agent is the Church.
Now, it is because the Church has failed, that’s why the Church is responsible for whatever evil happenings you see in Nigeria. Hold the Church responsible. And that means you and I are to be held responsible. We are not doing what we are supposed to do. How sick is Nigeria? Now, let’s quickly look at the sickness of our nation. When you say somebody is sick, you look at the blood vessels – right? You look at the bones, you look at the skin, and you look at the brain. Let’s try and find out.
Let’s look at the blood vessels of Nigeria and see what is going on in our country. Right before our eyes, Nigeria is becoming desolate and the Church is singing and dancing. Rivers and streams are drying up. If you travel a lot across Nigeria, when you get to bridges, watch – rivers are becoming sandy beds, they are drying up. Let’s look at the forests which we will liken to the skin of Nigeria. Years ago, you see Nigeria with thick forests. This is Nigeria today; they call it deforestation. This is the country today– the skin is going. How sick is your country? There used to be mineral resources that provided employment in the 60’s. In the whole of Plateau State, people were mining bauxite, aluminium all over the place. This is Nigeria today. Nothing is going on.
How sick is Nigeria? Look at Nigeria’s bowel. There used to be infrastructure. There is no infrastructure working in this Nation anymore. The bomb is already ticking. There is a young rascal that has grabbed hold of Nigeria around the Northeast zone and that young man is already tilting Nigeria. They call his name Boko Haram. If we don’t get this guy to stop, Nigeria is going to somersault. And that is where we are standing now. In fact our situation is so terrible that America had to come in to help us. France is now saying “We have to come and help you”. Nations of the world are now saying “We have to come and help you”. And yet the largest Christian auditorium in the whole world is in Nigeria. The largest gathering of Christians in the whole world is Nigeria. But Nigeria cannot solve its problems. We pray like nobody, so what is going on? How does our nation fare?
Let’s take a look at Isaiah Chapter 1 Verses 6 to 9. I read verse 7: The Word of God says “Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire, your land, strangers devour it in your presence.” You know that is true. The Chinese are the ones taking the jobs, Nigerians are unemployed; the Indians are the ones owning the companies, Nigerians have no jobs. Strangers are devouring our land right before our eyes and nobody is asking why. “And the daughter of Zion is acting as a cottage in vineyard, as a log in the valley of cucumbers, as a besieged city. Except the Lord of hosts had left us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.”
The immorality, the wickedness, the oppression that is taking place in Nigeria on a daily basis is more than enough for God to send brimstones and fire but thank God for the small remnant that God left. I pray you are one of those remnants; if you’re not, please join them. Believe me, it is the remnant that is keeping Nigeria.
Now, let’s go to the next phase – Abuja declaration, 1989. If you go to Wikipedia.org and type into the search engine, “Abuja Declaration 1989” this information will come up. Islam in Africa held a conference in Abuja, in 1989. At the end of it, they issued a declaration and it goes:
- To eradicate in all its forms and ramifications, all non-Muslim religions in member nations. (Now, Nigeria is a member nation) Such religions shall include Christianity. Now please note these words, “to eradicate in all its forms and ramifications all non-Muslim religions; such religions shall include Christianity.” The word “Christianity” in the communiqué was underlined.
- To ensure only Muslims are elected to all political positions of member nations.
- To ensure the appointment of only Muslims into strategic national and international posts of member nations.
- To ensure the ultimate replacement of western forms of legal and judicial systems with the Sharia
Then, to make sure that this strategy works; because it’s going to require money, Babangida, as the self-appointed president of Nigeria, put his hand into the treasury of Nigeria, took $ 21 billion dollars out and gave it to OIC- to the Islamic development fund of OIC and said, “Take this money, for the total…” I’m quoting, “…for the total Islamization of Nigeria in particular and Africa in general.” Babangida paid $ 21 billion dollars of our money to turn Nigerian into an Islamic nation and they have started. Don’t look at it as something that is isolated to the Northeast. It is meant to cover the entire nation until Christianity is eradicated in all its forms and ramifications.
By the grace of God, I happen to be a member of the National Conference. And I’m the delegate of the Christian Association of Nigeria from the Southwest. I represent Christians from the Southwest at the National Conference. I’m part of the religion committee and I’m also part of the inter-faith committee. We sit down with Muslims to discuss this matter, to resolve this issue. We reached a deadlock and the deadlock is in separation of state and religion – I will talk a little bit about that. Can they do it? The answer is yes, they can if we allow them.
So God told us to go to Turkey and learn some certain things. September last year, God spoke to Dr Vincent Anigbogu, the Director General of the National Institute of Transformation, and God told him that if care is not taken, in 30 to 40 years Nigeria will be like Turkey. And God told him: “Go and learn what happened to Turkey.” Now, Turkey used to be 100% Christian. Today Turkey is 96.04% Islam. Christianity in Turkey is 0.21% and God is speaking that if you don’t take care, Nigeria will end like Turkey. Christianity was in Turkey for 1123 years; Islam uprooted it. Christianity in Nigeria is 172 years old if we take the starting date from 1872, when Methodist Reverend Batch Freeman arrived in Badagry.
You would remember that the Catholics came first in the 13th Century; they did some Church planting around Warri and Benin Kingdom. They left in 1622, and then the Methodists came back in 1842, about 200 years after that. It is that coming of the Methodists that now developed into what we have as Christianity today. So, effectively, Christianity in Nigeria is 172 years old. Now, the point is this, if Islam can uproot the one that had been planted for 1123 years in Constantinople. Tell me, can they not uproot the one that is just 172 years old?
As a matter of fact, Nigeria does not come near the spiritual foundation of Turkey. All the seven Churches that Jesus Christ wrote letters to in the book of Revelation were located in Turkey. Apostle Paul, the champion of the Church, was a citizen of Turkey. The Macedonia vision that Paul saw – “Come over to Macedonia and help us – Paul received it in Turkey. Turkey had solid Christian foundation, Islam uprooted everything. So if the Nigerian Church is deceiving itself, hey! There is fire on the roof o!
I work with the Voice of Christian Martyrs and we go all over the North. I met the people one on one. We go to the North, it’s not that I’m living in Lagos and somebody is bringing information, I go there – to Maiduguri, to Kaduna, to Kano. I go to meet the Christians who are being persecuted and I must protest that the Church in the South is a selfish and a wicked group of believers because you abandoned the Christians in the North.
Look, God is the God of justice and God is the God of judgement; let’s not provoke Him to repay us with our wickedness. Because if God looks at what the Christians in the South have done to Christians in the North, He will fold His arms and allow Boko Haram to deal with us. We have to go to U.S, to Canada, to Poland, to Australia, to New Zealand to raise Christians that will help and support Christians in the North – the Nigerian Church is not lifting a finger. It’s not that you don’t have money, the Nigerian Church has money, but they help nobody. They only take and take and take; they don’t give jack.
When God spoke to Professor Anigbogu, he said the Nigerian Church is guilty of the sin of irresponsibility. To the Church in Laodicea, God says, “You are blind, you are wretched, you are naked.” To the Church in Sardis, God says, “You have a name that you live, but you are dead.” To the Nigerian Church, God says, “You are irresponsible” – what the Yorubas call oniranu. We have been given so much, we have delivered little. We only think about ourselves, we are consumed with our comfort, our convenience, our promotion, our breakthrough; we don’t even see what is going on around us.
As I am talking to you, Christians are still being killed and churches burnt down, and we have men of God in this country who can stand and say, “No!” It’s a pity Arch. Bishop Idahosa is dead. If that man was alive, maybe things would not have been like this. And we should thank God for small mercies that we have someone like Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor as the President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). The people that abuse him the most are the Christians. And believe me, if that man was not the president of CAN, you can’t sit down here today. The reason you can sit down is because somebody is still standing – and he’s standing alone while other pastors are abusing him. Go online and read what Christians are writing about CAN, about Pastor Oritsejafor; you will weep.
God said on September 15, 2103, “If care is not taken, in 20 to 30 years Nigeria will be like Turkey.” Dr. Anigbogu told us this at a strategy meeting in CAN in November last year. God told him to learn from Turkey. And what did the Most High say? “Find out how Christianity was destroyed in Turkey.” And Professor Anigbogu discovered that every mistake that the Christians in Turkey made, that led to the collapse of Christianity; the Nigerian Church is repeating those mistakes steps by step, one by one:
- The Church in Turkey underestimated the young Ottoman ruler the same way the Nigerian Church is underestimating Islam. I have met Church leaders who have argued with me: “It’s not possible, it’s not.” You mean what they are doing there, that they would do it here? No way!” No way? You don’t know Islam, you do not know the spirit that is behind Islam. Can you imagine? Could you imagine it until you saw it here? Could you imagine that somebody would take a cutlass and split the head of a child?
When you were coming to Church this morning, did it occur to you? Could you imagine that somebody would burn another human being simply because he doesn’t believe in what he believes in? They went to a Church in Bogoro on Sunday, locked the doors, stood outside, threw cans of petrol inside the church and set it on fire. They refused to allow the Christians to come out and roasted 70 people inside Church on Sunday.
At Deeper Life in Gombe, the church was having prayer meeting in the evening when three assailants lined up the window with AK47 and sprayed everybody. I was there. I saw the place. In fact I brought a piece of stone from Jos, from the mass grave of the 500. Ah! You can’t believe it! The Nigerian Church is underestimating Islam!
- The Church in Constantinople which was the old name for Istanbul, which is now the commercial capital of Turkey; from where everybody in Turkey now spread out, they assumed that Constantinople was the best defended city in Europe. The Nigerian Church is making the same mistake. They think they are the largest Church in Africa, the largest in the world – it’s a mistake! It doesn’t stop Islam. The leadership of the Church in Turkey, within and outside, was bitterly divided. Is the Church in Nigeria united? Jesus Christ says a house that is divided cannot stand. On the basis of that alone, if Islam does not divide the Church, the babalawos will do it. We are not working as one, but thank God, it is beginning to change.
What makes me happy is that Church leaders are now beginning to listen to us. So everything I’m telling you this morning, I’m passing to you information and I have to tell you the way it is so that you can be galvanised into righteous action. Racism and tribalism weakened the Church in Turkey; racism and tribalism is weakening the body of Christ in Nigeria. We brought our petty politics inside the Church. That is the same mistake they made in Turkey, that Islam is now 96%- the Church is now 0.21%. The Nigerian Church is making the same mistake and God is warning! “The way you people are going, I have seen it before o! This thing that you are doing in Nigeria, I have seen it before o! I saw it in 1453, before you were born. You’re making the same mistake o. You are going the same way. I will give you 30 years; I will hold them back for 30 years. If after 30 years you don’t change, I will take my hands off your case.”
All the Christians have to come together, stand as one and say no to Islam. But see, it is Christians who are abusing CAN, and Christians refuse to fund CAN. Now, how can you execute a war on an empty treasury? It’s not that the Nigerian Church doesn’t have money. Let me ask you a question very quickly: what is the annual revenue of the Nigerian Church? Does anyone know? No, you don’t. It’s N3 trillion. The Nigerian Church combined gets an annual revenue in excess of N3 trillion. How much does the Nigerian Church contribute to run its umbrella organisation, CAN? You know? You don’t know? – One million, two hundred and fifty thousand naira. Each block pays N250, 000 annually. Even that N250, 000, there are blocks that owe arrears for years; they refuse to pay. So CAN has no money. Islam took $21 billion, so tell me how you’re going to fight them with a budget of One million, two hundred and fifty thousand naira; how are you going to fight? Meanwhile, God is angry that you are not doing what He called you to do, that you are now doing your own thing. So how are you going to fight Islam? Tell me!
The weapon used to destroy Constantinople was invented by a Christian. He invented a Canon, Basilica; took it to Christians to buy. Christians didn’t have the money, so he carried it to the Muslims, Sultan Melmesh paid him cash. In three months Basilica was ready. It blew Constantinople to pieces. The same problem is in Nigeria. The strategy that the Muslims are using, that they are going to use to destroy the Church; it is Christians who are strategising for them. See, we’ve taught our people to be so sensitive to money that they’ve lost all sense of spirituality. The only thing the average Christian thinks about now is how he will get money. Whether it will cost him his soul; whether it will compromise his position as a Christian, he doesn’t think about it anymore. We’ve stopped raising disciples; we’ve focused on raising millionaires.
APC is a party to watch carefully. I’m not a politician, but the Church must know this because there is no way you can separate national politics from what is going on. I will talk a little bit about APC. But for 2015, APC has hired the campaign manager of Barrack Obama to come and strategise in Nigeria. When the man got to Nigeria, he needed a local to interface – the person he employed is a pastor – to hand over power to a party that resembles, in all intent and purpose, the Islamic brotherhood. Even Egypt rejected the Islamic brotherhood. While we don’t want Islamic brotherhood, a pastor is the one strategising for Islamic brotherhood in Nigeria. The weapon that was used to destroy Turkey was invented by a Christian; the Nigerian Church is following suit.
Constantinople had an army of 7,000 while the Muslims had a force of 80,000. The Church does not have an army. In Constantinople, rather than concentrating on building men, they concentrated on building a Cathedral. They built this house called Agia Sophia – the house of wisdom. In its days, this house was the most magnificent, the most expensive and the most beautiful house. This was what the Church concentrated on rather than building men that could defend this house. On the day Constantinople fell, there were no men to defend the city. The first man to enter Agia Sophia was 21 year old Sultan Mehmed. He headed straight for the altar, raised his hand and shouted, “Allahu akbar!”, and right there he commanded, “Convert it into a mosque”. This is Agia Sophia (showing picture) as a mosque and it would remain a mosque for 478 years until 1931, when the government of Turkey went secular, then the government of Turkey said, “Convert it into a museum.” But till today, it has not been handed over to the Church – it is a museum. Now, the Nigerian Church can decide they want to build a cathedral, but please let us put the horse before the cart. Let us raise disciples. Don’t let us repeat this mistake.
I raised this during the National Conference during plenary and the Conference went on fire. Everything scattered immediately. And the Muslims got up, they tried to shut me down. I pointed out to Nigeria, that we have a constitutional problem that is the core issue that we must resolve. And what is the problem of Nigeria? It is not corruption, it is not Boko Haram, it is not mediocrity, it is not lawlessness.
Our problem is dual ideology within the Nigerian constitution. It must be resolved, if we don’t resolve it, Nigeria is not going anywhere. There are two ideologies inside the Nigerian constitution. Let me show you something: Sharia is mentioned in your constitution 73 times, Islam 28 times, grand kardi 53 times, Muslim 10 times – in the Nigerian 1999 constitution. There is no single mention of Christ in the Nigerian constitution, no single mention of Christian in the Nigerian Constitution, no single mention of Christianity in the Nigerian Constitution, no single mention of Church in the Nigerian Constitution.
Now I ask you Sir, I ask you mama; Is your country an Islamic state, a Christian state or a secular state? Which one is Nigeria? Constitutionally, Nigeria is an Islamic state. The reason it has not been enforced is because they have not captured the jewel that is needed to enforce it, and that jewel is the South-West. And right now, they are set because there has now been a handshake between the North-West and the South-West; and this is where Christians need to wake up and politics now comes in. We now need to start creating political awareness among Christians because Christians don’t vote. We must change it and use our votes to quickly restructure the political imbalance in Nigeria; because if you make a mistake of using your thumb to dig the grave of the Church, you will stand before Jesus Christ and render account.
I’m not a member of PDP and I’m not a member of APC, but I saw something that makes me worried and I think you should see it – it is the leadership structure of APC. The National leaders in the North and South are Muslims. Members of the National Executive Council of the party are predominantly Muslim. They call you to come and vote; and there are Christians who are ready, who are already in APC. Look, if you use your thumb to dig the grave of the Church, my hand is not there; lo, I have told you. There is an Islamic agenda for Nigeria. We all opened our eyes; we allowed the political party to give us Muslim governors. 80% of their governors are Muslims. There must be a restructuring. In 2015, Christians must stand and insist, in Lagos state the governor must be a Christian – you must stand. And we are going to insist we are not accepting a Christian candidate that a Muslim political party is going to give us. We will pick our own candidate, under a different political platform. If we don’t, you can’t meet here o.
Now, let me now go back and explain what I meant by dual Ideology because I did not explain it. I was running for time. Section 1 of the Nigerian Constitution says that the Nigerian Constitution is supreme, that it is higher than any other law that is made in Nigeria. Right? Section 38, Paragraph 1, of the Constitution guarantees freedom of expression, freedom of believe, freedom of choice. You can decide which religion you want to be, under the Nigerian Constitution. Then, the same constitution now has Sharia inside the constitution and Sharia says, “If you dare change your religion to any other religion, you must die.” Sharia says “If you practise any other religion apart from Islam, you must die.” Both of them are in the same Constitution. So you have two captains in the same boat. That is what is rocking Nigeria; because the promoters of the dual Ideology don’t want to lose it. See, I’m in the National Conference – I sit in the religion committee. I know what is going on. I can’t tell you everything that is going on. We are fighting to get Sharia out of the Constitution. It is clear that if you touch Sharia, get ready for a bloodbath that you have never seen before. So, we have no other option than to petition our God in heaven, that, “God you have to intervene, we can’t handle this.” They are ready to kill to retain Sharia. That’s why we need your prayers.
I’m giving you a prayer request. Please pray that God in heaven will intervene and that dual ideology inside the Nigerian Constitution will be dismantled because it is only when we stand on section 38, that we can now build a society that is founded upon liberty, justice, equity and fairness. Until then, we can’t! That’s why this crisis is going on. Why is Boko Haram killing? They want Sharia. Why do they want Sharia? That is what is in the Constitution. Until you remove it, you can’t solve the problem. The problem is not corruption, corruption is the symptom. The real disease is dual ideology. And it is only the church that can pray it out. But right now the Church is praying other prayers. Please pray the right prayers.
Now let me quickly go to the next one. In 1983, OIC held a strategy meeting in London and in that meeting they strategized on how to turn the whole of Africa into an Islamic continent. The reason for OIC is that Africa is the only continent that has the largest population of Muslims In the world; therefore the entire continent should be Islamic. They produced a 322-page document after that strategy session. 156 of those pages focused on Nigeria.
They identified seven key nations that must be captured before they can turn Africa into an Islamic continent. The 7 nations are: Nigeria, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Cote d’voire, South Africa and Democratic Republic of Congo. OIC says these seven nations must primarily be Islamised. And of these 7 nations, Nigeria is Number 1. Once they islamise Nigeria, then there is no problem of Islamising Kenya. So when you hear of terrorist attacks in Kenya; that they attacked the mall in Kenya, it is not isolated from what Boko Haram is doing in Nigeria. It’s the same. Get the connection.
After they did that, OIC now zoned Nigeria. Now, this is interesting. Our current geopolitical structure: South-South, South-East, North-East, North-West, North-Central; you know it was not designed by any Nigerian government. I hope you know that? I hope you know that there is no Nigerian law backing it? I hope you know that it was not passed by any constituent assembly or by any constitutional sitting or by any national referendum. It was designed by OIC in 1983. OIC broke Nigeria into six zones; not to unite us as a people, not to develop us as a nation but to break us into little groups for the purpose of Islamization.
They have taken the Northwest; they placed a stamp of Islam on it – Sharia! They are battling seriously for the North-Central while the train, at the same time, has transformed into a political machinery and has moved into the South-West. So the next battle ground from 2015 is the South-West. The Christians in the South-West must wake up now, and begin to pray now because you cannot fight them the way they are going to fight. How many of you will throw bomb? How many of you will carry AK47? You will not. But the weapons of our warfare are not carnal; they are mighty through God. So you need this information.
Do you follow me? You need to begin to pray now, that every Islamic agenda for Yorubaland, shall not stand. And whatever they have already put in place, Almighty God dismantles it. Whatever they have planted, Almighty God uproots it; because if we don’t get South-West back, we will lose the whole of Nigeria. The Southwest is the key. That is where the intellectuals are. That is where the Press is. That is where the manufacturing industry is. That is where the banking industry is. Whatever you get in the South-West, you can take it anywhere in Nigeria, it will sell.
Now there has been a handshake under the guise of a political party. Wake up! This is more than politics. This is an Islamic agenda. When they finished, they handed over their strategy over to Shehu Musa Ya’radua. Shehu Musa Ya’radua Snr. presented it at the 1988 constituent assembly. That was how it entered the Nigerian consciousness until Abacha became Head of State. When he wanted to transmute from a military head of state to a civilian ruler, he called Dr. Alex Ekweme to restructure Nigeria for him. Alex Ekweme gave him this six geopolitical zone structure. That’s why Abacha said that he wanted six vice-presidents, one from each geopolitical zone. And God said “No!”
It may surprise you that the best president or head of state you ever had is General Sanni Abacha, retired and dead. Nigeria did not really become independent in 1960. Nigeria became independent on April 21, 1996 – the day General Sanni Abacha was used by God to deliver Nigeria. That was the day Abacha removed Dasuki, the Sultan of Sokoto as the Sultan; deposed him; sacked him; and appointed Macido as the Sultan. That day, Nigeria became free. What the British did was that when they were going, they exchanged external colonialism for internal colonialism. Let me explain it.
On September 30, 1960 – a day before the proclamation of independence, the British went to Sokoto and held a mock battle, they fought the forces of the caliphate. In that mock battle the British pretended that the caliphate defeated them. And the British surrendered, they then took the sceptre of the Sultan of Sokoto which they had earlier captured and handed it over, symbolising that they were handing over back the nation Nigeria to the caliphate. The caliphate understood what was done. That is where the “born to rule” mentality came from. They were now the new colonial masters. Because Britain did not want Nigeria to rise to its full potential, they knew what would happen, so they said in essence, “You say you want Independence? You want us to go? We will go but we will hand you over to someone who will continue to do the job for us.” On 1st of October, they came to Lagos for the public ceremony but Nigeria was not free. It was still a colony, now a colony of the Sokoto Caliphate.
That’s why for years in Nigeria – ask the elders – nothing gets done in Nigeria unless the Sultan of Sokoto says “Go ahead.” Even Obasanjo, when he was Head of State, he was a proxy of the Caliphate. Even Gowon was a proxy of the Caliphate. Have you forgotten that it was Gowon who took the schools from the missions? It was Gowon who took all the Christian schools in 1972 and till today in Nigeria, no Muslim school has been taken by government. No single one. Rather, Government is using public funds to run Islamic schools. But they took all the schools of Christians and they were taken by a Christian Head of State. And we were in that second bondage until God raised a mad man because only a mad man would do what Abacha did – you dared to touch the Sultan of Sokoto! Abacha invaded Sokoto, captured the Sultan, deposed him, sent him on exile and appointed his own Sultan. By that singular act, Abacha exalted the throne of Nigeria above the throne of the Sultan of the Caliphate. Nigeria was free!
The moment Abacha did that, the first casualty of the new throne of Nigeria, was Abacha himself. The throne said, “You can’t sit down here” and kicked him out. Abdusallam Abubakar, negotiated, “Just give me one year, I’m leaving. I want to hand over to one of your children.” So he handed over to Obasanjo. Whether he now did the right thing or he did the wrong thing, it doesn’t matter. But that throne recognises a covenant child. After Obasanjo left, he made a mistake – he handed it over to Yar’adua. The throne said, “What?” and handed it over to Jonathan. That’s what is going on, Church. Now there is a battle in the heavenlies for 2015. You need to understand why there is a struggle for 2015. You just read it in the newspapers. There is a struggle; why? Because this year 2014, Nigeria entered Jubilee. Jubilee is 50 years. 100 years ended – that’s two jubilees. The third jubilee for Nigeria has started. Yeah! The president who takes Nigeria into the next jubilee is the one who will gain control for the next 100 years – the Muslims understand it. They want 2015. Once they get 2015, we are locked up for the next 100 years. So the issue has nothing to do with whether Jonathan is performing or is not performing. Are you getting my point? Go to Kingdomnewsng.com and read the prophetic destiny of Jonathan. You are the ones complaining that Jonathan is slow, Jonathan is not performing. Eeeh! You are using your mouth to say what God doesn’t want to hear. Jonathan is 100% successful. Intercessors asked, “Lord why did you give us this man? He doesn’t seem to know what he is doing.” And God says, “He’s not there to give you employment, he’s not there to restore your economy; the job – the destiny of Goodluck – is to rebuild the foundation of Nigeria” and Jonathan is 100% successful.
Where did he get the courage to convene National Conference? That is what is going to rebuild the foundation. So if you say Jonathan has failed, God says, “He has not failed, what I asked him to do, he is doing it.” What he needs is the prayers of the Church, that he will be able to carry it through. You know the National Conference was almost scuttled. I received a call overnight that “Go and call your people in the South-West, this is what the Hausas are planning o.” They were going to scatter the National Conference. Everything had been put in place. It was the Middle belt that saved it. Middle belt said, ”Look, we are no longer part of the North. We are Middle belt, we are not North. If you do it, you are on your own. It fell out of their hands.
After OIC broke Nigeria into little bits and pieces, they now began to analyse. They said the North-West and the North-East are sufficiently Islamic, they needed Sharia. In North-Central, they developed four action plans: indigeneship for the Hausa-Fulani, they want to provide social services, they want to give promotion to officers of Middle belt and then capture resistant tribes by force, I showed you part of it. For the South-East, OIC said Christianity in the South-East appears formidable but it is mercantile Christianity. It said it can be bought and it can be sold; that’s the word. They studied us and said all we need to do is give the Ibo man sufficient money, he will drop the Bible, he will pick the Quran – and it is working beautifully.
As of today, half of Abakaliki has converted to Islam. As of today, the largest Islamic study centre in Nigeria is in Ibo land, in Ebonyi State. If you monitor the news, January 2014, 18 young Ibo men converted to Islam at the National Mosque Abuja. It was carried live on NTA.
The governors of Sokoto and Bauchi states gave each one of them 5 million naira. Governor Rochas Okorocha gave them N2 million. Ex-governor, Orji Uzo Kalu, gave them N1 million. Of course, Rochas now turned around and said “No,” that he did not give them any money – something that NTA carried. I’ve had the privilege to go to Ibo land and do this presentation. I have told the Ibo brethren, “Don’t expect bomb, there will be no AK47, expect naira rain.” They will pump money into Ibo and they are pumping money into Ibo land. If you are from the East, please get in touch with our people there. Tell them everything is not money. Don’t sell your birth right. Three plans of the OIC for Ibo land include: encourage Muslim businessmen to go into partnership with the Ibos, encourage Ibos to become cattle rearers; encourage Ibo girls to marry Hausa Muslims.
That’s the plan. They have activated it. I’m telling you something that was planned 30 years ago and as you are sitting down here, if I ask you, “Can you show me the strategy document of the Church?” The Church has no plan. We are just trying to draw up one now. The Church has no plan. Islam has put its own in place 30 years ago. They are implementing it step by step. For the South-West, Islam said concerning Yoruba land, “Both Islam and Christian are superficial.” That is: If a Yoruba man tells you he is a Muslim or if he tells you he’s a Christian; OIC says “Don’t mind him, he’s not a serious one. He’s not committed to any other religion. The real religion of the Yoruba man is traditional worship.” Their strategy for Yoruba land is that they would start an Islamic movement that looks like Christianity. That Islamic movement would be meeting on Sunday morning. They would call themselves brothers and sisters, they would do weddings like Christian, they would do vigils like Christians, they would do ‘praise and worship’ like Christians. If you buy land for your camp ground on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, they would buy their own land, when you are having your Holy Ghost service they too would have their holy service without the Ghost so that in the process of time, the Muslim in the Yoruba land will see no difference between Christianity and Islam. When you now go out on evangelism, they will tell you “Haba! Kilode? Seb’olorun kan naa la jo nsin” that is, “Why? We are serving the same God.” Whatever you are doing in the Church, they are doing in the mosque – OIC agenda! It has been in place. You’re seeing it with your eyes but you don’t know what you are seeing. The question now is what is your response?
For South-South, there is nothing much. All they said is, “Let us look for radical youths in the South-South, give them scholarship in Arab nations, convert them and send them back. Their first experiment was Asari Dokubo; it worked beautifully! They have hundreds of youths from the Niger Delta. They are in Kuwait, they are in Dubai, they are in Iran, they are there now and they are taking them and they are giving them scholarship, giving them money. Those ones that come back may not convert to Islam, but they will have a soft spot for Islam. Go to the Niger-Delta now; If you are from Niger Delta go back home, and find out how many houses in your town were owned by the indigenes 10 year ago and how many houses are owned by Muslims. You will be shocked – they have bought nearly all the houses. Niger Delta: Port-Harcourt, Yenogoa, Bayelsa – they are buying property there. Why? They want the oil and the gas.
We are looking at it and we don’t know what we are seeing. When Islam plans, Islam plans 25 years in advance. They are master strategists. It is Christians that don’t plan. They (the Muslims) strategise; they plan. They have laid the foundation to take the whole of Nigeria; but it is not too late. God is still talking now; so let us wake up and pick race and reverse whatever they’ve planned to do. OIC wrote a letter which we were able to get a copy with the seal of Babangida on it in Febraury1990. There are two points that I want to draw your attention to. The first is point 3: Babangida was instructed by OIC: “Place total ban hereafter on all forms of worship by Christian, Hamadiyahs and all tribal religions. Point 4: “Impose Sharia law on Nigeria” (this was 1990); islamise all universities, colleges and schools and courts of law in the “Federal Islamic Sultanate of Nigeria.” Can you see that? They’ve changed the name of your country – it’s not Federal Republic of Nigeria, it is Federal Islamic Sultanate of Nigeria, with the Sultan of Sokoto as the spiritual head. Wake up! This is how it is worldwide. Terrible rage against the Church worldwide. Mr Olisa Agbakoba is already fighting this in his individual capacity.
We may not have time to talk, but I quickly need to mention this: October 1988, the Christian Council of South Africa wrote letters to leaders of the Church in Nigeria warning them – and let me read it out for you – that “There is a proposed plan by northern Muslims and their Arab OIC supporters to destroy churches; carry out mass murder of Christians in Nigeria with more intensity in the northern states of Nigeria.” I was at the Western theological seminary doing this presentation when one of the elderly lecturers there got up and said “That is correct; I received a copy of this letter. I made copies and I gave it to leaders of the Church.” But the question is “What did the Church do?” Nothing! Now, we’re seeing it with our eyes –mass murders of Christians in Nigeria, with more intensity in Northern states of Nigeria. It’s not a lie. So, if anyone thinks that Boko Haram is restricted to the north, go think again.
Unless the Church rises and stops them, Boko Haram will come to the South. You know they came to Osun state. I hope you heard the story. They brought a bomb inside a bank in Osun state. People were vigilant and they saw that two Hausa men who came carrying a bag, left the bag, and they walked out of the bank; so people ran out, and they called the police, and the police came and saw that that it was a bomb and they defused it. I’m sure you remember they were to bomb the Third Mainland Bridge. I’m sure you remembered they were to bomb it on Friday. God exposed it on Wednesday. They don’t give up. The Church holds the key, but before the church can pray, and God will hear and answer, the Church must first return to repentance. The Church must first return to discipleship; the Church must return to holiness; because we cannot continue like this and expect God to hear us.
There are 50 nations in the world that persecute Christians…50 nations in the world. As of today the worst nation where Christians are persecuted is Nigeria. Nigeria carries 66% of all the Christians killed worldwide. I’m not even quoting Nigerian sources, I’m quoting World Watch list. They said between November, 2011 and October, 2012, 1201 killings of Christians were recorded worldwide of which 791 happened in Nigeria – 66% – which means persecution of Christians is worse in Nigeria than in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, Libya – all of them combined. If it has not got to you, it’s on its way, but it will not get to you. My job is to give you this information so that you can go and reassess your Christian life as an individual and as a Church. On the map of Africa, every area that has Muslim majority today used to be Christian nations. The early Church fathers were based in North Africa. Islam overran everybody. Islam is pushing down; Christianity is pushing up; we’re meeting at that red line. 90% of all the conflicts in Africa take place along that line which proves that primarily every conflict in Africa is a religious conflict. It’s not a political conflict. It’s Islam pushing down. And if you look carefully, that is where the Middle Belt is, and that’s why I’m appealing to Christians in Nigeria, particularly in the South. Plateau State is our responsibility; Benue state is our responsibility we must do everything possible to reinforce Christianity in the Middle Belt, because if Islam should penetrate the Middle Belt, the South is gone. The Southern Christian is not ready to die. If they want to stop people going to Church, all they would do is they would just bomb one Church in Lekki, bomb one in Mushin and bomb one in Bariga.
I want to talk to you about the Voice of Christian Martyrs. We have 450 children that we rescued from the North. Their parents have been killed. They are the children that I told you we had to go outside of Nigeria to get support for. Nigerian Church is not helping. I want to encourage the women in this assembly. If you find time, you can go to Abeokuta. The house where they are being kept was built by Canadian Christians. Those children are receiving free education, free clothing and free feeding. Some of them are now in the university. They started arriving from the year 2000, after the Sharia riots in Kaduna. We started bringing them. We need the support of Christians. God expects Nigerian Christians to support.
Please get this information to the children. Tell our youths, let them understand. Tell our girls, our daughters, “Don’t go out with a Muslim.” There is a deliberate agenda to capture the daughters of Zion. Don’t go out with a Muslim. The Muslims will never allow their daughters to marry a Christian but they will come after Christians. Islam did not create Nigeria. The Islamist agenda that has been unleashed against Nigeria shall fail. Amen.