…explains why he was at OBJ, Atiku’ s reconciliation
meeting
…says he has not received money from any politician
The Bishop of Living Faith Church (aka Winners Chapel), Bishop
David Oyedepo, yesterday explained his grouse with the
administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Oyedepo alleged that
the Buhari’s government has, since 2015, handled the killings of
Nigerians in some Middle Belt states with kid gloves.
Speaking in Ota, Ogun State, at the Church’s Sunday Service
titled ‘Covenant Day of Open Doors’, the clergyman stated that he
is not a member of any political party, adding that he is after a
peaceful country. According to him, he has never taken any money
from any politician or political party despite being close to the
corridors of power during every administration.
Speaking on the killings in some parts of the country, Oyedepo
said: “The spirit of faith is a daring spirit. You can see what is
happening in this country today, it takes men and women of the
spirit of faith to stop the devil. Wickedness won’t give up without
vengeance; you can’t be killing people and pretended that you don’t
know. “Nobody is qualified to lead by morality without a feeling
for people’s lives.
The day of killer agents has come to an end. This year will not
end before everyone involved in the killings of the innocent will
be paying for it in hard currencies. “Anybody who has pity on
killers is a killer. God is angry with the wicked every day. The
recent holocaust in Plateau State is an assault on the moral
standing of a nation.
They don’t even care anymore and people are jumping up; I have
never seen such madness before. “If you must kill to rule, you
won’t rule. Anybody who must kill to access power, God will deal
with them, either local or state government. “Don’t mind any devil;
I have never taken a dime from any candidate in my life. We have
never given bribe to anybody in this ministry.” He noted further
that: “I have been very close to the corridors of power, but I have
never collected a dime from any of them. “Anybody who partners with
killers, whatever happen to killers will happen to them.
I have never seen the destruction of this order in my life. “I
know how many times I have cried because of these senseless
killings going on in this country. They sent me some videos, I
can’t watch it. The callousness is terrible. There is no other way
to prove it that those in charge are deliberate in making it
happen. You don’t have to go to school to know that. A family of
nine wiped off, for what offence? “People came out and say they did
the killings and they were not arrested, what a shame! They claimed
responsibility for a killing and they are on the streets.
Those who killed the Deeper Life woman in Abuja have been set
free. Let us come down to reasoning. I will let you know how many
churches have been razed down from 2015 till date next week Sunday.
“The degree of callousness is unbelievable; we are virtually back
to the Stone Age. Their sympathisers will go for it.
There will be no war in Nigeria, but those who want it will go
for it.” Oyedepo, who was one of the clergies present in Abeokuta,
when former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Atiku Abubakar, his
ex-deputy, who is also the presidential candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), reconciled their political differences,
said that he was invited to mediate between both leaders and
nothing more. His words: “Never be left in any doubt, I have never
belonged to any political party and I will never belong to any.
“There is no political party where members of Winners are not. Our
goal is to secure the future of Nigeria.
We must talk about this and we have to appeal to people’s
reasoning. We don’t want to see a war in Nigeria. “I am called a
peacemaker and I have done that at all levels in this country. I am
anointed to be a mediator because the price of peace is cheaper
than the cost of war. That is my involvement. I am invited and I
don’t go anywhere I’m not called. You need me to come, people in
every party including the party in power, have been involved in
such, it’s not theory.”