Reverend Dr David Taoheed Salami, Director of World Evangelism Ministry and founder of a non-governmental organisation called Rustica Urbana Development Initiative, has said the 2023 general elections should be suspended.
The Yoruba leader also asked the church to be wary of the alleged Fulani feudal and political dominance in the country.
The cleric said, “The Nigerian church, the body of Christ has been in the forefront of praying for Nigeria yet the situation in Nigeria is getting worse to the extent that Nigeria has become today the poverty capital of the entire world and with this present situation the questions keep on coming, where did we get it wrong?
“Where did we the Church of Jesus Christ in Nigeria miss it, that today gross darkness covers the entire landscape of Nigeria? Are we so reprobate to the extent that our prayers have become an abomination in the ears of our God?
“The nation we call our own is moving fast towards a precipice: the insecurity is so rife that the situation here can be compared to the days of when there were no kings in Israel and lawlessness took over the stage. To me, I believe strongly that our God is speaking to us as He did to the children of Israel in the days of Isaiah. This is captured in Isaiah 58: 1 – 14.”
Salami added that the Church in Nigeria and its leaders have been watching as wicked people perpetrate wickedness in all areas of the country's life since independence.
He made it clear it was wrong for the Church and its leaders to allow “this wickedness to continue to this day”.
He continued, “What a deceitful type of governance that Nigeria has featured. We got to this point because of the 1999 fraudulent Constitution. The indigenous nationalities are crying like in prophet Jeremiah’s day: ‘the harvest is past and we are not saved’.
“Which means the indigenous nationalities are crying to the church, weeping, groaning; because the Scripture says the entire Creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God which means it is only the Church that can deliver these indigenous nationalities.
“It's only the church that has been empowered by God to deliver, and break the yoke that is placed upon the neck of all the indigenous nationalities in Nigeria suffering under the yoke or the script of Ahmadu Bello a Fulani man. God's heart is pained concerning the suffering of Nigerians.
“Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people is coming unto me because they dwell in a country where the leaders are oppressing them, where nobody cares for them even the Church of Jesus Christ that is supposed to take up their case and fight for their rights. The church appears to be silent.
“Prosperity and materialism is what they are seeking, provoking God’s anger. However, the Church and its leaders must recover the good path because only the Christian community is endued with power, the power to change things, the power to turn things around. The power if anything will happen in Nigeria, if there will be changes, the Church must rise up and speak for the oppressed. The church will say NO! to the upcoming election in 2023 under the fraudulent 1999 Constitution forced upon us by Abubakar Abdulsalami.
“Nigeria continues to be poorer in spite of the presence of power of the Church, and the oppressed of the nation called Nigeria continue to live in slavery. Why is the northern Fulani being allowed to continue to perpetrate the wickedness of their master-slave relationship and subjugate other ethnic nationalities to savagery in pursuit of Sir Ahmadu Bello’s script of 1960, and the church and our leaders are silent?
“Why the church leaders do not reject this in totality even when NINAS (Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination), an alliance of indigenous nationalities for self-determination in Nigeria informs the body of Christ that this fraudulent 1999 Constitution is the source of all troubles, of all wickedness, of all pains, of all the killings of Christians and non-Christians that we are seeing right now, when the north declared their own areas as Sharia belt even though they have Christians who are indigenous in those areas?
“This problem was analyzed by NINAS who say the Unitary Constitution of Nigeria is the source of all the problems we are trying to resolve. That is, every problem Nigerians are facing, be it corruption, be it bad educational system, be it dead infrastructures – all these are coming from the 1999 Constitution foisted upon us by Abdulsalami.
“Nigeria cannot survive again on a fraudulent Constitution. This nation cannot stand on fraud and I expect the Church being the Church of Jesus Christ, being the Light of the nations, being the Salt of the earth: the Church of Nigeria is supposed to arise and say NO to that Constitution.
“But rather than the Church to say NO to the 1999 Constitution, the Church joined the politicians to continue to allow that Constitution to rule and ruin Nigeria and Nigerians… all that is wobbling Nigeria to catastrophic collapse are coming from that 1999 Constitution.”