BIAFRA: “I pray that Biafra and all those agitations will crumble in 2019” -Methodist Church Prelate

The Prelate of the Methodist Church of Nigeria, Samuel Uche, has decried the agitation for the break-up of Nigeria, expressing that people fighting the cause being suppoorted by selfish politicians.

He disclosed this while addressing his congregation.

Mr. Uche said, “All these campaigns that the Igbo must leave a section of the country or that Biafra must be, they are all sponsored by politicians who are looking for political power”.

Mr. Uche expressed his concerns about several national issues, on Sunday in Ibekwe, Ikot Abasi Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, during a Thanksgiving Church Service organised by the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Nsima Ekere.

“Any politician who sponsor people to kill others so that they can enter political office, they will never enjoy that office,” Mr. Uche prayed vehemently.

Responding unanimously, the congregation chorused a loud “amen!”

Mr. Uche said further, “I pray that Biafra and all those agitations will crumble in 2019”

“I am not PDP, APC or APGA. I am for every Nigerian.

“Nigerians will reject bad leaders in 2019”.

The Cleric also talked on the “great deprivation” in the Niger Delta region and appealed to the federal government to with immediacy tackle the problem faced by the area.

“As a leader of the Methodist, I am saying here that we should allow this area (Niger Delta) to control its resources and pay a certain percentage of money to the centre”.

“Let us practice true federalism,” he said, adding that what is keeping Nigeria one was nothing other than oil.

“All these shouts of one Nigeria, one Nigeria is because of oil.

“If the oil dries up today, it will be to your tents oh Nigeria!”

Mr. Uche also discussed on the finance minister saying that there was an improvement in the nation’s economy. He however expressed that she would be more believable, when he sees families around him enjoy three square meals daily.

He criticised the politicians in the country referring to them as being “greedy”.

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He added that, “If we spend responsibly what we have, everybody could be taken care of and everybody will be happy.”

The NDDC chief, Mr. Ekere, during the church service, appreciated God for His blessings on his life and that of his wife.

Mr. Ekere appealed to Nigerians to continually pray for President Muhammadu Buhari and the country as a whole.

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Several dignitaries were in attendance, including the former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Victor Attah and Governor Solomon Lalong of Plateau State; and the Deputy National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Segun Oni, who represented the party’s National Chairman, John Oyegun.