The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, have revealed why he stopped attending a church branch in Abuja.
Adesina who didn’t give the church name, said he stopped attending because the resident pastor was bent on bringing down President Buhari’s administration with criticism even when he does well.
In an article Adesina titled; “THIS KUMUYI IS SIMPLY DIFFERENT”, he stated that the pulpit has turned to a soapbox where hatred is preached instead of love, fake news is spread weekly and congregants are instigated against the leadership of the country.
“I used to attend a church in Abuja from 2015 to 2018, till the pastor began to see himself as someone who must bring the Buhari government down. Sunday after Sunday, it was all sorts of criticism from the pulpit. But I endured, since it was branch of a church I had attended for over 30 years. Till one day, he overdid it. The Dapchi girls were abducted, and there was no name the pastor did not call President Buhari that Sunday. It was horrendous that such things could come from the pulpit. But I suffered long, and sat through the sermon, or rather, what was supposed to be a sermon. I then went home, wondering what the church of God was turning to.
If you recall, the Dapchi girls were recovered within a week, except for Leah Sharibu, and a few others. Awful, quite sad, but still there was cause for one to be thankful to God. So, the following Sunday, I went to that church, waiting to hear what the pastor would say, having excoriated and flagellated the government so badly the week before. I was dazed, nay, stunned. Throughout the sermon, not a word, not even a whisper about the recovered Dapchi girls. Bad faith. “If you are a genuine believer in Christ, you wouldn’t hate your neighbor. Nor would you disdain those in power…” the article read in part.
