Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, claims he stopped attending a church in Abuja because the pastor was constantly criticizing the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).
This was stated by Adesina in an article titled ‘This Kumuyi is Simply Different’ published on Thursday in support of a statement made by the General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William Kumuyi.
Although Adesina did not specify which church he left, according to his public profile, he is a member of the Foursquare Gospel Church, where he was ordained a pastor and has been a member since 1988.
The President’s spokesman said in the article that it was unfortunate that some pastors had turned their pulpits into soapboxes from which they spew hatred.
“I used to attend an Abuja church from 2015 to 2018, until the pastor began to see himself as someone who had to bring the Buhari government down,” he wrote. It was all kinds of criticism from the pulpit, Sunday after Sunday. But I persevered because it was a branch of a church I had been attending for over 30 years. Until one day, he went too far.
“The Dapchi girls were kidnapped, and the pastor did not call President Buhari that Sunday.” It was appalling that such things could be said from the pulpit. But I sat through the sermon, or what was supposed to be a sermon, for a long time. I then went home, wondering where the God’s church was going.”
Adesina stated that after the majority of the Dapchi girls were rescued, the pastor did not think it was appropriate to commend the President for his subsequent service.
However, the President’s aide praised Kumuyi for saying last week that Christians should not “disdain those in power because they appear to be failing to deliver on electoral promises.”
While a former Vice-Chancellor of Ajayi Crowther University, Prof. Dapo Asaju, was within his rights to be upset about the state of the country, he added that the Buhari administration was doing a lot to improve the country’s fortunes.
According to Adesina, some men of God predicted that Buhari would lose the 2019 election, but it turned out to be a forgery.
“Regardless of their titles, I hear bishops, apostles, prophets, pastors, and evangelists cursing the government and issuing doomsday warnings.” One even publicly stated that the Buhari administration would end before the 2019 elections. But the man won handsomely, and that preacher is still strutting and fretting on the pulpit every week, not repenting in sackcloth and ashes,” Adesina said.
He noted that during the 2020 #EndSARS protests, some pastors came out to support the protesting youths, but they quickly returned to their shells when the protests became out of hand.
“Pastor Kumuyi also says that if you are a true believer in Christ, you would not go on the rampage, destroying government property,” Adesina added. However, this was not the case in the country in October of last year. Under the guise of EndSARS, the country was almost completely destroyed.
“Unfortunately, they were encouraged by pastors and preachers who simply despise the fact that their President is a Fulani man.” Many of them are on record as encouraging the protesters until things turned ugly and awry. And then the pastors vanished into thin air. There was no word of caution or restraint as cities burned and police officers were killed and even eaten up.”
